How to Use slot machine in a Sentence

slot machine

noun
  • Could the flash of a slot machine be the light at the end of the tunnel?
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The shells clinked like coins falling from a slot machine.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The Kings lit up the scoreboard like a slot machine, and at no point did the Pelicans dig in.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • On the tightest slot machine in Vegas, the chances of winning the top prize are about one in 34 million.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The change won’t be opening the floodgates for just anyone to release a slot machine app.
    Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 28 Jan. 2021
  • The slot machine could should see plenty of targets with the loss of Barkley and Sterling Shepard (toe).
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • A day earlier, the couple had won $5,000 on a slot machine.
    Imelda García, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Rebels got a nice pop of publicity last week for putting a large slot machine on the sideline for home games.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Videos on social media showed video slot machines that had gone dark.
    Rio Yamat, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • An online slot machine gives you the thrill and rewards of real-life casinos in the convenience of your own home.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The new trading apps, designed as visual candy, are meant to give you the rush that gamers get (and also the high that people seek out from slot machines).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That's how much a tourist in Las Vegas won at a slot machine last month, but was never informed due to a malfunction in the machine.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The casino floor beckons gamblers with more than 1,900 slot machines and round-the-clock blackjack and poker tables.
    Tom Peterson, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • The flickering border of the Little Shop of Horrors slot machine said its own bright goodbye.
    William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • With almost 46 percent of Green Bay’s targets missing in action, the veteran slot machine has a chance to turn back the clock.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The net win is the amount of money that gamblers lose at slot machines and table games and doesn't reflect revenue from restaurants, concerts and the hotel.
    Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The tech news website 404 Media found entire sections of slot machines at MGM casinos roped off.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The casino floor is nearly as silent as its statues, save for the siren song auto-playing from a few slot machines echoing through the polished halls.
    Kim Berryman, CNN, 15 May 2020
  • The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, who are not under state jurisdiction, have three sites with the slot machine lookalikes.
    Kim Chandler, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The bars on casino floors are still open, but customers now must sit down to drink at a table or in front of a game or slot machine, which means no more walking around the floor with a cocktail in hand.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Now casinos are feeling pinched as patrons shy away from handling chips, cash, slot machines and playing cards.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2020
  • There are more than 100 casinos in Las Vegas, so no trip here would be complete without wandering through one of these dens of smoke, drinks, and slot machines.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
  • Now, people can gamble on a real-life slot machine without touching it at all.
    Wayne Parry, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But online slot machines are ringing and table games are humming.
    NBC News, 19 Apr. 2020
  • One video showed a man continuing to gamble at a casino slot machine while water fell around him.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Detroit public schools retiree had won a five-figure slot machine jackpot during a church outing at a casino, and went to the bank to deposit it.
    Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Casinos in some states have shut down, yet others remain open, where hundreds or even thousands of people touch the same slot machines and gambling chips.
    Fox News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Some machines are gambling devices that use pinballs to create random games of chance, like a slot machine, adding to the confusion.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But who would have imagined that her cellar of curiosities would include a slot machine, Nipper the RCA dog and a pinball machine?
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Officials in Nevada went on an extensive search to right a wrong after a slot machine failed to alert a man to his six-figure jackpot win.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2022

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