Sentence examples for bet on something from inspiring English sources
At the beginning of a deal or a roll you have to bet on something.
Innovation requires a willingness to bet on something risky, and a faith that a good idea will be rewarded.
"If you want me to bet on something," said the writer Gay Talese, "I don't think it's going to make it, the same way Toots Shor's didn't make it.
Both are on my list of strong rebound candidates, but the minimal discount on both players suggests that there are more than a few owners out there willing to bet on something resembling pre-2011 form from both players this season.
"The problem is, do you want to bet on something where everything has to go right?" said Peter Geraghty, managing director at Darby Overseas Investors, an investment company in Washington that has invested in Latin American bonds and stocks for years.
Venture capitalists are in the business of placing money, so they have to bet on something, even in scary times.
And while the look on his face told us he's probably imagining scenes resembling the one above, we're betting on something funnier and more embarrassing, like The Benny Hill Show crossed with a former boss of mine who used to say things like "I find sharing a cigarette after the act of making love the most intimate experience out there".
Unlike the previous failed strategies by his predecessors at AOL, he said in an interview Monday, "We're betting on something that's a known quantity and something that's going to happen".
Referring to brand-name shows with strong track records of attracting audiences, like "Mamma Mia!" and "The Lion King," Mr. Voeller added, "I wouldn't want to be betting on something that wasn't a known entity right now".
