Sentence examples for gambit has worked from inspiring English sources

For Girardi, the number gambit has worked out fine, since it took only two seasons of wearing No. 27 for his team to break a title drought that had lasted nearly a decade.

By 2012, it seemed that Sargent's gambit had worked.

Of course, not all of Alibaba's gambits have worked out.

Graham isn't stupid, and he has shown that his gambit — no matter how transparent — has worked.

A gambit from Alex Salmond, Scotland's nationalist first minister, to present continued rule from Westminster as a risk to Scotland's public services has worked.

It is unclear, even if Rodriguez was healthy and was willing to play in Japan, if the Hawks' gambit would have worked.

The Pikotaro gambit seems to have worked.

He then legged it and subsequently faked mental illness to avoid a trial; a gambit that might have worked had Deed not cunningly threatened to send him to Broadmoor, at which point the man stood up and started protesting vociferously".

For Maserati, the gambit has already worked.

That gambit has been tried, by more Western diplomats and politicians than can be counted, and the results are clear: It doesn't work.

Their next advertising gambit has actual wheels.