Sentence examples for gamble to try from inspiring English sources
It was a gamble to try to get it".
Baseball could see an inability to pay taxes as a potential problem for Rose, a reason for him to gamble to try to make more money.
Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, its biggest ever, is an $8.5bn£5bnbn) gamble to try to catch up with Apple and Google.
With 10 34 left in the fourth quarter and Alabama having just tied the game at 24-24, Saban took a gamble to try to keep the ball away from Watson.
Rodgers knew it was a gamble to try to fill a Luis Suarez-sized hole in his team with Balotelli.
People also hate to lose and often gamble to try to avoid a loss when they would otherwise act more conservatively.
But last month sleep was far from anybody's mind as punters queued to put their money into SuperEnalotto, a numbers game that promised jackpot prizes of 17.9 billion lire ($10.7m) and 13.6 billion lire on two successive draws, by far the biggest ever offered in Italy.SuperEnalotto is enticing Italians who would never have dreamt of gambling to try their luck.
He had been compulsively gambling online to try to win enough money to pay off a spiralling debt.
"You've got to resist the urge to gamble and try to force things to happen," he said.
This beautiful-looking book, commissioned as part of the bicentenary of the birth of Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), is based on John Caldigate, one of the Victorian writer's less well-known novels, in which a young man with hefty gambling debts decides to try his luck in New South Wales.
It was a big gamble but I had to try".
