Sentence examples for bet upon from inspiring English sources
"bet upon" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are making a wager or a gamble on something. For example: "I bet upon the outcome of the game".
The villains, he wrote, were the bankers whose self-interest he had once bet upon.
All gamblers, even those fixing the outcomes being bet upon, are taking risks.
Majeed explained the "brackets" system, whereby for betting purposes a match is divided into sections in which events can be analysed and bet upon.
A corner kick, a no-ball, a horse not ridden to the full can all be bet upon at the click of a computer mouse.
Since it's relatively easy for rivals to set up competing services, buying stock in Groupon is placing a bet upon management.
Neither player wagered on his own matches, and an independent hearing officer found no evidence of any intent to affect the outcome of matches bet upon, the governing body of men's tennis said.
Experts suggest more than £10m ($15m) will be wagered as people guess which cardinal will get the nod - making this the world's most bet-upon non-sporting event.
It reads: "Disciplinary Rule 31: In that between 1 July and 15 September 2016, both dates inclusive, you placed 44 bets upon football matches, and accordingly gambled upon football matches in contravention of Disciplinary Rule 31".
I would hedge my bets upon arrival, asking how many dozen were available and, if there were more people in front of me than cartons for sale, I would rationally move on and settle for lesser eggs.
He said Labor would unveil its policies before the election but it still believed in needs-based school funding and "we are always a better bet based upon our history to better fund healthcare and education than the government".
The F.B.I. was on the Toledo campus earlier in the 2005 season to look into a large bet placed upon the Kent State game, a game the Rockets lost.
