Sentence examples for run a raffle from inspiring English sources
The phrase "run a raffle" is correct and widely used in written English
It means to organize or oversee a raffle, where tickets are sold for a chance to win a prize. Example: "The school is trying to raise money for a new playground, so we decided to run a raffle with donated items as prizes."
As the two-week exhibition came to an end yesterday, organiser Wilhelmina Bunn said: "It's first‑come-first served for visitors, but we run a raffle for the first 50 places in the queue.
A few months earlier prisoners in a Sonora jail were found to be running a raffle for a luxury cell that they had equipped with air conditioning and a DVD player.
Oh and to celebrate the launch of Groupola, the site is running a raffle to give away a number of Apple iPads to those that sign-up to its newsletter.
When running a raffle contest for charity, it is not unusual for local businesses to donate their goods and service as prizes for the raffle drawing.
A safari company has come under fire for running a £1000-a-ticket raffle which gives hunters the chance to kill a lion.
In May, a man claiming to be from a nonexistent winery ran a fake raffle promising a Fiat.
Despite initially planning to return to the tradition form of sponsorship, the club again ran a sponsorship raffle for the 2011 12 season.
In December, Fields ran an online raffle for a pair of $450 coyote-fur mittens.
True, it doesn't so much have a plot as a pretext, and we could surely do without the mirthless running gag about a raffle prize, but with Philip Gladwell's lighting adding rainbow hues to Tom Rogers's primary-coloured costumes, it's too bright and breezy a show for us to care about anything but the fabulous music.
"We ran a letter-writing campaign, a big fundraising effort; coffee mornings, raffles, a black-tie ball.
Hacker Paradise, which is currently running a contest for a free year of global co-working for three hackers, has already received 4,000 applications in just the first two days since the raffle launched.
