roulette

Example Sentences

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At the time, each Southwest trip was a game of roulette.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Iain Jenkins said Eljamel "played Russian roulette" with his spine during the 1999 private operation carried out while he was captain of Dundee United.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

Under the same example, the roulette player would have to report $10,000 of income.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

In so doing, an old bicycle wheel may be fashioned into a roulette, or a broken chair transformed into the cabinet of a radio.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

There’s the roulette for tickets, where I once spent a lot of credits only for someone to come up right after me and immediately win five hundred tickets.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera