Sentence examples for is gamble from inspiring English sources
verb
To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
Wall Street Journal Angry Birds film is gamble for Rovio.
Major escalation is gamble to check Iranian backing of Shia rebels trying to oust President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
It is Gamble the scientist who shines forth in the show, which is organized by Nancy Jervis, vice president of China Institute, and has been seen in various versions and different places, including China, in the past 15 years.
What they don't want to do any more is gamble on medium-budget movies that can't be endlessly sequelised and don't play as coherently in Mumbai and Beijing as they do in Brooklyn.
Gullible idiot that he is, Gamble is told by straight-faced detectives that firing your handgun into the air while doing paperwork in the office just once – the so-called "desk pop" – is a well-accepted tradition for New York police officers; he believes it, with appalling results.
Local network playback is gamble, it seems to me lately.
"Gambling is gambling," she says.
"That sickness is gambling.
She is gambling that he is good.
It is gambling, and it is abusive.
