Sentence examples for raffle from inspiring English sources

Plus, unlike Netflix, Amazon's sensible categorisation means that finding something to watch isn't like running around a car park trying to grab a raffle ticket from the beak of a petrified hen.

Most butchers will expect you to get your wish-list in at least a week before - that way you just produce your crumpled raffle ticket from the depths of your purse to claim your chosen bird rather than fighting at the counter.

The players have just been given £800 each for their various in-house media appearances but, to make the cheques worth cashing, they decide to pool the money together and raffle it off to one lucky winner: "Each of us would get about £800 out of it at the end of the season for the work we'd done," recalls Keane.

Harold Wilson, the then shadow chancellor of the exchequer, declared that the scheme was a "squalid raffle", which would entice people away from safer savings accounts to riskier sorts of lotteries in which participants can, and generally do, lose all of their money.But a recent paper* from a group of economists at the University of Sydney suggests that these concerns are misplaced.

An asexual female who clones herself ten times is like someone who buys ten raffle tickets, each with the same number.

Studies have shown that pupils with savings accounts—regardless of the amount in them are several times more likely to attend college than those without.Another promising scheme links deposits to prizes: a programme in Michigan in 2009 gave credit-union members a chance to win raffle prizes for every $25 deposited.

Finally we settled on the inevitable: a book.Last summer, in front of this same bookstore, I was taken in by an excellent seller of raffle tickets.

More than 300 firms applied for a slot at DLD; 100 turned up; the lucky 30 were chosen by raffle.

Using tactics that bordered on age discrimination, some major artists offered to raffle their works to people in their 20s and 30s who voted.

One state legislator is pushing for a new tax disguised as a raffle, in which every Alabamian would put up a dollar a week in the hope of winning a $1m prize, with the rest of the money going to support college scholarships.

This, however, is a raffle that the female wants to lose.