Sentence examples for in a final gambit from inspiring English sources

ATHENS — Greece offered to make painful spending cuts and hike taxes Thursday in a final gambit to win one more bailout from Europe before the country descends into bankruptcy.

In an Oct. 27 story in the Journal headlined "As a Final Gambit, Parties are Trying to Damp Turnout," the piece attempts to make the case that both parties were trying to convince voters to stay home on Election Day.

The precious prognosticator made two final World Cup picks on Friday, putting his hard-earned credibility on the line in a bold gambit.

The officials said they did not know whether the Cuban request had been just an opening gambit or a final position.

However, Arnason, until recently a leading practitioner of the King's Gambit, now hoped to catch Geller in an original gambit with 13 P-B4?!

Fischer was again White in a Queen's Gambit Declined.

A final fling in the final furlong.

It was kind of a Home Alone/Wile E. Coyote gambit, if it was in fact a gambit (and, Adam, I fully expect you to scold me for making more of this than I should).

Social media's plays on book covers are, in part, a marketing gambit, library employees said.

In 2014, a similar gambit, offering a vote on Scotland's independence, paid off.

The soldiers prepared to return in the Vikings - a gambit that would entail enormous risk.