Sentence examples for lottery take from inspiring English sources

Public finance experts consider the states' lottery take a tax too, and one that falls disproportionately on poor people--except when there's a big jackpot.

Has anyone considered the fact that tonight's results show proves the point that the results show should be on a Saturday night and that both the Lottery (take your pick of whatever dreadful quiz show) and Casualty (which has degenerated from an interesting TV drama to a dreadfully boring soap) could be easily dropped from the schedule?

And I saw that unlike my fantasy lottery take, the more I gave the more I got back!

For the really big events, a ticket lottery takes place.

The tax lottery takes taxpayer involvement in a slightly different direction.

We missed June 27, the official day Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" takes place.

The flight reductions as a result of the lottery took effect officially on Jan.

In New Hampshire last year, a woman who won the lottery took the state to court to keep her identity a secret.

"The Lottery" takes the classic theme of man's inhumanity to man and gives it an additional twist: the randomness inherent in brutality.

By the time the lottery took place, on Dec. 1, 1969, the rules had changed again and Clinton was in danger of being drafted.

But it has always required luck and patience to get them because the lottery takes place one year before the concert itself.