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US
/ˈbɛt/
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[ UK /bˈɛt/ ]
[ UK /bˈɛt/ ]
NOUN
- the money risked on a gamble
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the act of gambling
he did it on a bet
VERB
-
have faith or confidence in
You can bet on that!
Look to your friends for support
Depend on your family in times of crisis
you can count on me to help you any time -
maintain with or as if with a bet
I bet she will be there! -
stake on the outcome of an issue
She played all her money on the dark horse
I bet $100 on that new horse
How To Use bet In A Sentence
- It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
- Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- In her acceptance speech, the winner thanked the almighty and promised to do even better at the all-India level.
- Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?