Sentence examples for roulette from inspiring English sources
The word 'roulette' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a revolving wheel with numbered compartments, the players betting on the number at which the ball will come to rest. It can also refer to a game of chance that resembles this, typically played on a board marked with numbered compartments. Example: "The casino was packed with people eagerly placing bets on the roulette table, hoping to strike it lucky and win big."
noun
A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
This "casino" defied any evocation of poker machines, blackjack or roulette.
So why are young women playing Russian roulette with their sexual health?
The SNP frets about "fixed odds betting terminals" – the computer roulette (and similar) games found in betting shops (p20): "the Scottish Government needs legislative powers to control the growth and impact of these machines, and we believe the UK government should devolve these powers in full.
As if this Russian roulette existence isn't enough, understudies also have to endure icy resentment when they finally step on stage, from audiences angry at being short-changed.
My roulette skills would have really had to be up to scratch to guess correctly and get to those.' He says Sampras was too good for him in the 1998 semi-final.
Where 20 years ago the discussion was of keeping the red flag flying high, it will now concern whether to go for red or black as croupiers will spin roulette wheels and hand out cards in the imposing block on Holly Street, which was designed in the shape of a colliery faceworker's pick.
His Hippodrome piece is a melding of images: London; roulette wheels and blackjack dealing; the Matcham building – the personalities that are fixtures in the Hippodrome now and have been in its long past.
The report mentions mock executions, Russian roulette.
It is political roulette.
The president had promised that, unlike his right-wing predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, he would run an exemplary government with squeaky-clean ministers.In this section Korean roulette Peña's promising start A world of cheap money Down and out in Paris Bonfire of the subsidies ReprintsIt is in both France's and Europe's interest that Mr Hollande recovers some of his political flair.
As the election approaches, the ball clatters across a slowing roulette wheel.
