Sentence examples for a common gambit in from inspiring English sources

A common gambit in the open standards arena is the invite-only event.

Fat talk is a common conversational gambit in which someone decries his or her (though usually her) body with a comment like, "I hate my thighs" or "I wish I was as thin as you".

Though the words sound like "a milli, a milli" repeated over and over, the sampled lyric may originally have been "a biddley-biddley," a common opening gambit for MCs in Jamaican dancehall during the seventies and eighties.

This is a vision I find sympathetic, a gambit in a long journey.

But, as an opening gambit in a negotiation, it's terrible.

The $800 price was a risky gambit in a recession.

They may prove to be an opening gambit in negotiations rather than an ironclad position.

There is the now-common gambit of famous people comically playing with or against their real-world public persona: Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whom Lopez mistakes for a parking attendant, insults him in Spanish, twice.

Americans involved in the decision insist that they never had such a gambit in mind.

Turning the tables on the audience is hardly an unknown gambit in dance performances.

Her comments appear to be an opening gambit in the endgame to succeed her husband.