Sentence examples for to gamble on something from inspiring English sources

"We were not willing to gamble on something that had never happened before on that scale".

For others, it is knowing the right moment to sell calves or to gamble on something called "rain insurance".

Banner days still draw a crowd, but everyday racing—"Wednesday afternoons at Beulah Park" (a track in Columbus, Ohio), as one insider calls it is harder to sustain.In more than a dozen states some tracks have added slot machines or card tables to attract those who want to gamble on something other than horses.

When one executive offered to settle the dispute with a coin toss, Waters asked why he should gamble on something he owned.

Since Brian Ashton departed, no England coach has been prepared to gamble on a reputation "that I could make something out of nothing and then make two howling errors".

While this is clearly something Rich is willing to gamble on, we'll have to wait to see just how long he wants to push it.

The thought of losing the other friendships and love was something I didn't want to gamble on.

"If it's something you feel you know about and you have a perspective on it, this is a way to gamble on that perspective," he said.

But there are bigger things we need to gamble on.

With national literacy rising, he decided to gamble on newspapers.

Emboldened by that experience, Disney decided to gamble on "Enchanted".