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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.
- Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
- I never believed in God, not even between the ages of six and ten, when I was an agnostic.
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- 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
- There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
- The net result of all these changes is that schools should be able to deliver a better service to pupils.
- The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times