Sentence examples for gambling on something from inspiring English sources

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You're better off knowing where you stand than gambling on something completely beyond your control.

While Nordic people have made the best of what they have, Americans persist in gambling on something better, and yet settling for something worse.

But for Sara Mandour, a 23-year-old architect voting in her first presidential election, gambling on something new is exactly what today is all about.

"He was a typical Irish drinker-worker, always at the bookies, always gambling on something, didn't take his drink very well, quite violent".

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"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".

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.

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.

Smarkets, the London-based social gambling startup, is on something of a roll.

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