How to Use lottery in a Sentence

lottery

noun

• They held a lottery to determine who could get a green card.
• Life's a lottery, isn't it? It all depends on luck.
• Room assignments are determined by lottery.
• The draft lottery is scheduled for May 16 and the draft is June 22.
  — oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
• The team with the fifth-worst record will have a 10.5% chance of winning the NBA draft lottery.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023
• This is not the first time Durham has hit a lottery jackpot.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• The wife went into the store and bought some lottery tickets.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• An 18-year-old who played the lottery for the first time won $48 million.
  — Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• The Utah Jazz have a lottery pick and selections Nos. 16 and 28.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
• Make the 2024 draft count Once again, the Hornets are going to have a lottery pick.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2024
• Here’s a look at the 14 hopefuls in the lottery, and their odds of landing the 7-foot-3 French teen phenom.
  — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
• What are the odds of winning the Powerball lottery game?
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2024
• What are the odds of winning the Powerball lottery game?
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2024
• This role, this project has been like winning the lottery.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2023
• But this is not the largest lottery jackpot in recent times.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• All teams near the bottom of the league's standings hold hopes of landing the top prize in May's lottery.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 9 Apr. 2023
• Most of that, or some of it going directly to the lottery.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• That was also the only time their pick improved thanks to the lottery.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2023
• The lottery decides all of that, and arguably, for good reason.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2024
• At some point, tickets were doled out through a lottery.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• The Powerball isn’t the only massive lottery prize this week.
  — Tina Burnside, CNN, 18 July 2023
• The Flyers will be in the lottery, but not with as high a pick as some of the teams that are embracing the bottom-out.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The pair of lottery picks signal a new era for the Sparks, who are trying to end a three-year playoff drought.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
• Young’s usual spot for a fill-up and lottery tickets was closed that day.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• At this point, the odds of getting hit by lightning are stronger than winning the lottery.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023
• The ticket was sold at a Joe’s Service Center, the lottery said.
  — Amanda Watts, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Now to backpedal on my backpedaling: a lottery ticket costs $2.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2023
• There will be a lottery for 40 seats that cost $10 for all performances.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 16 July 2024
• There are only 16 public seats in the courtroom and a lottery for places will be held outside the Van Nuys courtroom shortly before the hearing.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• Sixteen seats in the court will be offered to the public via lottery in the hours before the hearing, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Superior Court.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024