Sentence examples similar to a wagering scheme from inspiring English sources

What prosecutors characterized as the "altered wager scheme" may have exceeded that threshold and brought the three men under scrutiny when it was discovered that Davis held the only winning Breeders' Cup pick-six tickets.

That amounted to a direct challenge to Mr. Ackman, who weeks earlier had called the company a pyramid scheme, wagering $1 billion that the stock would fall.

Fancy a wager?

(Except, maybe, propose a wager).

"I even put a wager on it.

And he had to pay off a wager.

She confronts Cora Lee and they make a wager.

Michael Jordan enjoyed a game of golf, and a wager.

"Happiness involves a wager, a certain risk," he told me.

"Our whole faith is a wager," he tells her.

Paulette Randall's career is the result of a wager.