How to Use gambit in a Sentence

gambit

noun

• I couldn't tell whether her earlier poor-mouthing had been sincere or just a gambit to get me to pick up the dinner check.
• Kyiv saw through this gambit, and the peace talks flopped.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• The other side of the coin also has a stake in this gambit.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Each of the songs in In the Heights takes off along its own visual gambit.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 May 2021
• The gambit worked, and the song hit Number 15 on Adult Pop Airplay.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• The lawyers tried that gambit again on Thursday with Chutkan.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• The gambit for the tour is that the sibling trio will play five of their albums each night.
  — Chris Willman, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
• Nathaniel Hackett’s gambit took the Broncos to a new low.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• The van On the night of Sept. 9, Cavalcante pulled off one of his boldest gambits.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• And yet, that doesn’t mean that Putin’s gambit will succeed.
  — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
• The gambit has reportedly paid off for the band to the tune of $2 million.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• But this gambit would have even less prospect of success.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• The gambit fails to please them, thanks to the long shadow of Japanese colonial rule.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Was the salad-tossing always the gambit for the second sketch?
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• The next week or so will go a long way to determining if the gambit pays off.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• So that’s their gambit, and it’s sustainable and all that.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
• In any case, Iger has judged Chapek’s gambit a failure.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The apex of the language gambit seems to be those amazing polyglots that know a dozen or dozens of languages.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• After a couple of months with it, does the gambit feel fresh, stale, or a little of both?
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2022
• But as the embers of war glow in the region, this gambit becomes less and less tenable.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• Their gambit did not work; the moms were tear-gassed like everybody else.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
• For many of them, Putin’s gambit has unwound 30 years of progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  — Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
• The gambit angered Bolivians and gave Morales a last-minute boost.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
• While the rest day aims to preserve him for the postseason, the team’s first loss of the season shows that the gambit is not without risk.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
• For a moment, the movie’s inciting gambit seems to rear its head again.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2022
• Saied’s gambit may bring that process to a shuddering halt.
  — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
• To Ivan, this is like when people say the king’s gambit has been refuted.
  — Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• The gambit lasted a far shorter time than that summer’s heat.
  — Airea D. Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2023
• The gambit is part of a broader effort by Kennedy to remove his name in swing states, so his supporters vote for Trump, while remaining on the ballot elsewhere.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
• Standish is shocked by Lamb’s indecency — which is saying something about the level of that indecency — but the gambit works.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024