How to Use gamble in a Sentence

gamble

1 of 2 verb

• The mayor is gambling that the new policies will help rather than hurt the city.
• The mayor is gambling with the city's future.
• He would often gamble hundreds of dollars on a hand of poker.
• He's been drinking and gambling heavily.
• Before the apps, clients had to make plans for how and when to gamble.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• At this point, Ohtani is not known to have gambled at all, let alone on baseball.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• At the end of the day, don’t forget to play for fun and gamble responsibly!
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• While these options may indeed be the answer, this is not the time to gamble.
  — Mike Bugembe, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The people who will be buying in on the IPO are gambling on Arm’s future.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2023
• In the years following the Sportradar deal, gambling on tennis soared.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Now, the 54-year-old breast cancer survivor does not want to gamble with her health.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Easy to get along with, big-time jokester, loved to play cards and to gamble a little bit playing cards.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
• Rose had to commit a crime to gamble, seeking out bookies to make his bets.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• That's the million-dollar question the non-Trump faction of the party is gambling on.
  — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 21 Feb. 2023
• Bazley is the exact archetype of player whom the Sixers should be gambling on with their end-of-the-bench spots.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Since he’s hurt, what is his current trade value and is a team willing to gamble on his health?
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• And the league doesn’t distance itself from gambling anymore.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Many people can gamble or play games of chance without harm.
  — Don Sweeney, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2024
• Lefkowitz himself started gambling at the age of 9 and was playing poker with his friends at 12.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 5 Dec. 2023
• Critics pounced on him for gambling on the lives of people who make crossings of the English Channel in small boats.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Others gamble that things will get better: that the fever will pass and people will come to their senses.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• Someone who likes to gamble is a risk seeker, while someone who doesn’t is risk averse.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The test went well enough that both sides decided to gamble on an actual race in 2010.
  — Bruce Martin, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The few Cal fans in the world might be sick enough of Fox to gamble on Kenny Payne’s recruiting connections.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2022
• In Louisiana, as in most sports-betting states, the legal age to gamble on sports is 21.
  — Katherine Sayre, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Some of them were professional players who gambled on the side.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• The renaming was designed as a humorous way to promote the casino as a fun place to stay and gamble.
  — Karu F. Daniels, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
• Its contestants were folks desperate enough to gamble their lives for the chance at a big payday.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
• As Venus and Uranus square off, gambling with your heart delivers spicy results!
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• For both slot machines and sportsbooks, the dollar amount of bets isn’t the exact amount of money Ohioans are spending while gambling.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023

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gamble

2 of 2 noun

• Starting her own business was a gamble, but it paid off.
• She thought about starting her own business, but she decided it was too much of a gamble.
• In June, the Biden White House pushed all its chips in on a big gamble.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Aug. 2023
• Black’s gamble paid off with his tick still in place at the time of writing.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Looking back on it, how does the team feel that gamble went?
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
• What looked to be a gamble for Andonovski proved to be the safe bet.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• That would be a gamble for any team making a move like that.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
• Ordering meats by the pound can be more of a gamble here.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• The thrill of the pastime has always been this gamble: No one knows what’s inside the box.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The gamble paid off for Schneidermann, who became CEO of the firm in 2019.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
• The gamble paid off: The Milwaukee Bucks picked him in the second round with the 58th, and final, pick of this year's draft.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2023
• Searching for the best flight deals can often feel like a gamble.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• Cleona Ní Chrualaoí took a gamble and cast the movie themselves.
  — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• But that makes the ICU a gamble that does not always pay off: sometimes, time is not enough.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 28 Dec. 2022
• Such a trade would be a gamble even if Cal Quantrill returns in August.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• Blake Snell is good, but the Giants are taking the biggest gamble since D-Day.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Cat skiing, meanwhile, avoids the weather gamble and is a fraction of the cost.
  — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2023
• Crow-Armstrong’s attempt to take second on a ball in the dirt in was a gamble that backfired.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Here’s a look back on the surefire hits, the potential disasters and the gambles that might just pay off.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 May 2023
• Choi says the gamble was a challenge, but ultimately worth the risk.
  — Rebecca Souw, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
• Bacon-wrapped anything can be a gamble, because the bacon and the thing wrapped in it may or may not be cooked to the same degree.
  — al, 14 Feb. 2023
• And then Wade — the man who made that gamble — left halfway through Mabrey’s first season with hardly a word of warning.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• But with Meta following suit, his gamble may have paid off.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• While returning to a beloved role is always a gamble, Vaughn has been on a hot streak lately.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• The team’s success in F1 has, in the company’s own words, made its marketing gamble pay off.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• But relying on walkups is a gamble even in a business that runs on tight margins.
  — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Betting on Richardson is a gamble, and one that likely wouldn't pay off for year or two in a best-case scenario.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 14 Feb. 2023
• The back-and-forth affair was sent into overtime when the Flyers took a gamble and pulled goaltender Carter Hart with 2:40 left to play.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
• The data so far indicates that Oscar gambles are handled much like sports bets — very close to the event.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
• Community members went to the baths to catch up, play games and gamble, do textile work, chow down and even get their teeth worked on.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023

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