Sentence examples for were bet from inspiring English sources

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were bet

verb

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

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They became stars the week before the race, were bet down to low odds and finished up the track.

Isenberg thinks the sharpies in Las Vegas and on my online service would have noticed immediately if unusually large amounts of money were bet.

He told me that sometimes millions of pesos were bet on cockfights and that the best cocks could cost hundreds of thousands of pesos.

Last week, hundreds of thousands of dollars were bet at OTB at the Suffolk Regional and the Nassau Regional betting centers after races were run and the outcome was already known, because the off-track hubs failed to receive the "stop betting signal" from four harness tracks.

Huge amounts of money were bet on the televised game in question between Sussex and Kent, which Sussex unexpectedly lost.

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That's Bet Hatikva.

Slim was bet.

I'm betting on both.

Both are betting the ranch.

I'm betting he will.

"I'm betting on you".

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