sweepstake

Example Sentences

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If you have drawn him in the sweepstake, you have a Pair rather than a Prial, which is the highest hand in three card brag.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Keisha Schahaff joined her daughter after winning their tickets in a sweepstake.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2023

It's now like winning a lottery sweepstake, where the lucky few get a free new life, meanwhile, the others are denied any chance at life.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2018

Sitting on folding chairs, he and sound man John Harrison, 50, are passing the time by organizing a sweepstake on the date of the royal baby’s birth.

From Time • Jul. 3, 2013

Two dracaenae exchanged coins like they were taking bets for the End-of-the-World office sweepstake.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan