Sentence examples for had started gambling from inspiring English sources

Many people said they had started gambling on Christmas because the casinos were the only businesses that remained open.

Nervous, Oscar decides to tell Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) that Kevin has started gambling again, but later confesses to him that he lied.

As the years have come along and I've earned more money I've started to gamble more.

Even tourist attractions have started to gamble on taking plastic-only payments, including Stockholm's Pop House Hotel and The Abba Museum.

Heidfeld, who had started 10th, owed his second-place finish entirely to the tire gamble.

I started gambling when I was 14.

So I started gambling on horses.

The tradition is said to have started in gambling rooms in Venice in the 16th century.

Many of the taxpayers who have started reporting these accounts are gambling they can quietly come into compliance with the law going forward and that the IRS won't hound them for the back taxes, but the IRS has been warning loudly they could lose that gamble.

Problem gambling does cause health problems, however, not only through self-neglect, but perhaps also as a result of its extraordinarily high level of comorbidity with other psychiatric conditions; psychiatrists have started to investigate whether gambling in itself could precipitate a psychotic incident in someone who was previously in a subclinical state.

The world of share trading, regarded by some to be actually worse than gambling, has started to make its presence felt in Second Life.