Sentence examples for gambit to from inspiring English sources

No one expected Mr Loeb's gambit to succeed.

Conversion was, at first, a gambit to save their lives.

Shareholders did the same this year with his gambit to acquire Dynegy for $665 million.

The opening gambit to break the ice was from Ned [Kelly ]

It is entirely plot-driven, moving from scam to ploy to gambit to stratagem.

Some ignore their situation and choose a wild gambit to seize attacking prospects immediately.

This is no author's gambit to keep a reader's interest, although it does.

"They made a gambit to try and carve Fehr out of the process, and it didn't work," Gatehouse said.

I instantly recognized the non sequitur as a classic teenage gambit to thwart parental pedagogy, but it still worked.

There was something about the antique purse and its desperate gambit to lure customers that spoke to him.

It's a goofy gambit to serious ends, a very physical expression of his desire to do something remarkable.