Sentence examples for first jackpot from inspiring English sources

Red or Black? also hit the headlines for the wrong reasons after former criminal Nathan Hageman scooped the first jackpot.

The following year he hit his first jackpot, with the wartime escape memoir The Password Is Courage, based on the life of Charles Coward.

Life imitated art for a lowly Indian government clerk as he became the first jackpot winner on his country's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Sushil Kumar's staggering 50 million rupee (£634,000) triumph on the game show has transformed him into a role model for millions of young people yearning to escape poverty and find a role in India's burgeoning economy.

Life imitated art for a lowly Indian government clerk as he became the first jackpot winner on his country's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Sushil Kumar's staggering 50 million rupee (£634,000) triumph on the game show has transformed him into a role model for millions of aspiring young people yearning to escape from lives of poverty and find a role in India's burgeoning economy.

A project that aims to identify all of the cancer genes in the human genome has hit its first jackpot.

Two weeks and 500 competitions later, my enthusiasm was justified—I hit my first jackpot: a free chocolate bar that some poor intern was going to have to package and post to my home address.

and what a way to finish with our third jackpot winner on Friday," he said.

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A couple who won more than £100 million playing the EuroMillions lottery could be set to become the second jackpot-winning pair to divorce in a matter of days, reports suggest.

But despite moments of nostalgia, this narrator loves her new life, where a child's clutching fingers remind her of a lever "ringing in the first / jackpot of many, with coins / and cries, heavenly noise, / a crashing pile / of minor riches".

Partly, it's clever marketing, including bigger prizes (the first £1m jackpot was introduced in 1994).