Sentence examples for correctly bet from inspiring English sources
Washington played over-under double coverage against the wideouts outside and correctly bet that the Giants would not have the patience to run their passing attack through their tight ends and running backs inside.
In 1930, the petroleum industry funded the first statewide referendum on daylight saving in California, correctly betting on an increase in pleasure driving.
Mr. Kram and his partners profit when they bet correctly on the future value of entertainment.
The billionaire investor George Soros was initially pilloried when he bet correctly in 1992 that the British pound would fall sharply.
Iran-contra, the Total Information Awareness program and now this -- bet correctly on a nuclear attack and win real cash prizes!
It booked a $900 million gain on the sale of Horizon Wind Energy and bet correctly that prices of mortgage-related securities would fall.
Lick was having an excellent 2008 — he'd bet correctly on the collapse of the financials — but in October he closed out his short positions, expanded his long ones, and got trapped.
"Trades of the Year," announced the proud cover of the February/March issue, teasing a feature about Wall Street pinup boys who had wisely shorted the subprime sector or bet correctly on commodities.
What's more, in the past two decades the market's reaction to earnings surprises has intensified, so the payoff when you bet correctly has increased, and things like derivatives make it easier than it once was to place big bets without arousing suspicion.
Over that stretch, he has had a lot of victories, including huge profits in 1992 when the Soros funds bet correctly that the British pound would have to be devalued, and in 1990, when it shrewdly forecast the rapid fall of the Japanese stock market.
