Sentence examples for gamble on something from inspiring English sources
"We were not willing to gamble on something that had never happened before on that scale".
For others, it is knowing the right moment to sell calves or to gamble on something called "rain insurance".
Banner days still draw a crowd, but everyday racing—"Wednesday afternoons at Beulah Park" (a track in Columbus, Ohio), as one insider calls it is harder to sustain.In more than a dozen states some tracks have added slot machines or card tables to attract those who want to gamble on something other than horses.
They were unwilling, uninterested to take a gamble on something they didn't already know.
When one executive offered to settle the dispute with a coin toss, Waters asked why he should gamble on something he owned.
While Nordic people have made the best of what they have, Americans persist in gambling on something better, and yet settling for something worse.
"He was a typical Irish drinker-worker, always at the bookies, always gambling on something, didn't take his drink very well, quite violent".
Was filled with ice-cold despair because he had touched on the thing I only sometimes let myself suspect might be true: that I have gambled on something and have failed.
"It's about somebody who is willing to take the risk, to take the gamble on doing something regardless of what the critic is going to say about it," Mr. Keller said.
I've often wondered what we'd have done if the decision had been less stark -- if the doctor had said 50-50, or if the gamble had been on something known, on Down syndrome or one of the severe crippling diseases.
