Sentence examples for * sweepstakes in from inspiring English sources

Murphy had offered a sweepstakes in which participants' race numbers and finish times were picked at random.

Niners Coach Jim Harbaugh offered this unprompted statement about the 49ers' participation in the Peyton Manning sweepstakes in the off-season: "Oh, one other thing.

The campaign will also have a sweepstakes in which the winner will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington for the inauguration.

"The idea had to do with the tone of sweepstakes in general, which is that they're fun," said Gary Briggs, OurHouse.com's chief marketing officer.

The initial heavyweight entry in the Simpson literary sweepstakes, "In Contempt," Christopher Darden's account of his life and of his role as the second prosecutor in the Simpson case, is a bad, posturing, and sometimes distasteful book.

The cafes' owners and their lawyers and lobbyists insist the games are legal under a 1971 state law that allows businesses to offer sweepstakes in exchange for the purchase of products.

All she's doing is running a detailed celebrity-death sweepstake in her head.

Usually, the best productions of "Blithe Spirit" and "Private Lives," its rival in the revival sweepstakes, happen in regional theaters, starlessly, under knowing directors.

To celebrate the release of the American paperback edition, Scholastic held a six-week sweepstakes event in which participants in an online poll were entered to win prizes.

Girlfriend's response is in the form of a sweepstakes letter in which she tells him he's been pre-approved and therefore is entitled to the following: a gilt-edged heart valued at$55,000, a co-op in Hoboken valued at $95,000 and so much more An "invitation without obligation" follows from the couple's parents which promises the guests that no gift is required.

Reader's Digest began to phase out sweepstakes mailings in the United States.