How To Use Gamble In A Sentence

It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
It cannot be smoked, drunk or gambled away. Times, Sunday Times
By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.
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Instead, I'd gambled all my sweetness only to find out I was disposable.

And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
This friend - who in an ironic twist of fate, appears in the film not as a gambler, but as the casino manager - would sneak down to the casino, after hours, and start playing with feverous intensity.
Bush the gambler is betting that he will come out looking like President Reagan, whose deficits bought economic reforms and a stronger national defense. The Budget Debate, IX, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off.
Those are two big gambles and their outcome may be a big determinant of the result of the next general election. Times, Sunday Times
Online gambling and spread-betting are now the highest risk areas of addiction for problem gamblers, according to a survey published yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Lisa accurately predicts the winners of sporting events that Homer gambles on so she can be closer to her father.
The case may establish for the first time that bookmakers owe a duty of care to compulsive gamblers. Times, Sunday Times
After their bowling inadequacies were exposed earlier in the series, Australia gambled this time by dropping a batsman.
The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism.
Their religion forbids them to drink or gamble.
Britons have been swapping bets on royal foibles for decades - many gambled on the name Diana would choose for her eldest son - but recent years have seen an expansion in the scope of the bets offered by mainstream bookmakers. The Seattle Times
There are more than half a million problem gamblers and calls to the country's leading helpline rose by more than a third in the last year. Times, Sunday Times
Set in Los Angeles of the 1930s, it depicts a dark and uncertain world, a world of pornographers and gamblers.
It's a gamble that can backfire badly. Times, Sunday Times
The pair had a bite to eat and a gamble. The Sun
It is one thing to kick the establishment, quite another to take a gamble of such epic proportions. Times, Sunday Times
The necessity of making a living disentranced him from his gamble.
The LA Times is reporting that former Fry's executive and accused embezzler, Omar Siddiqui, once gambled away $8 million in a single day. The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives
Few firms will be willing to gamble on new products.
He's a liar, a cheat and he gambles as well. The Sun
Mr Benjamin complained of Mr Russell of the 'Times' for holding him up to fame as a "gambler" -- a story which he understood Mr Russell had learnt from Mr Charles Sumner at Washington. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
Instead firms are cutting the money they put into pension funds and telling workers to gamble their savings on the stockmarket through private schemes.
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It was a gamble that paid off in the most golden of coinage when Fletcher netted the play-off clincher four minutes later.
I thought that given a better part he could have fulfilled the promise he showed but not as the stereotyped gambler with a heart, which has so littered the American musical scene since Gaylord Ravenal applied for a job on a showboat.
Her third husband, Josef, the soi-disant Baron Freytag-Loringhoven, gives her a taste of the high life, gambles away his money, then disappears.
The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
Last year, he gambled with crossover success and fell flat on his face.
In the mid-1980s, he gambled his export-quota profits on property and stock.
Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael's quiet instructions to Jason. Ishmael
Every weekend he drinks and gambles away his earnings.
People want to gamble and technology allows many new forms of gambling. The Sun
However, Murphy proving to be the master tactician took a gamble that the roads would dry under the windy conditions and had the car shod with completely slick tyres.
But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers, gamblers, and their womenfolk.
The Vegas audience of polyester-clad gamblers and middle-aged couples contrast starkly with the fag-puffing, beer-swilling crowds at home.
The gambler bought off the police and thus was able to operate freely.
Cockfighting, also known as "cocking," is a bloodsport that dates to colonial times in the United States and has offered gamblers a venue for betting around the world. Cracking Down on Cockfighting
This was more in the character of the Irish itinerant gambler, called in that country a ` ` carrow, '' than of the Scottish beggar. The Antiquary
A few years ago, Fremont Street was choked with cars, cabs, exhaust fumes and even a few gamblers.
The lowdown: Cyrus Garza (Jimmy Smits) isn't your typical Supreme Court justice; he gambles, womanizes, and has a more public persona than any justice has ever had. Inside TV Blog
It runs sporting websites where punters can gamble online. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
As the plucky younger side you expected them to gamble. Times, Sunday Times
A gambler would probably ask how many zeroes need to be added to the donation for all traces of morality to disappear.
Since his arrest he has been to Gamblers Anonymous sessions in Bristol in a bid to kick the spiralling habit.
He was a compulsive gambler and often heavily in debt.
I gambled that they wouldn't shoot.
The drama played to his vanity as well as his instincts as a political gambler. Times, Sunday Times
In gambles, people are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
In truth, the gamble in bringing Doyen back against an instinct to keep him for another season never looked like succeeding.
Iam the daughter of a compulsive gambler. Times, Sunday Times
They have been wagered by gamblers like Donna (who won $900 at a casino in Redding, Calif.) and unselfishly given to charities.
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
But coal industry insiders say buying Hatfield is a gamble for any new owner.
Colleagues said Dr Gamble was also noted for his pioneering work in medical and dental hypnotherapy.
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Add to that: vain, an inveterate breaker of promises, a gambler and a lover of alibis, and the picture becomes ever more confusing.
The gambler bought off the police and thus was able to operate freely.
Are you going to gamble on the result of the fight?
The last nine years have seen one of the most foolish gambles in history - doomed to fail. The Sun
After receiving treatment for 10 minutes, he was stretchered off the field to be replaced by Gamble.
Because young men who read instead of gamble are known to be "steadier" than the gamblers, and because children who read on Sunday make less noise and general row than those who will play tag in the neighbors 'front-yards, there has grown up this notion, that to read is in itself one of the virtuous acts. How to Do It
Most gamblers can ill afford their habit.
Another spin on the roulette wheel for the gambler. Times, Sunday Times
With widespread illegal gambling activity, a group of Bahamians want what they call the archaic, undemocratic gaming laws in the country to be changed to afford them the right to gamble in their own country. The Bahama Journal - Bahamas News Headlines
A generation ago over two thirds of chronic gamblers bet on the horses, only one in five played on the poker machines.
The American two-party system is fracturing, as both sides are struggling with immense war debt, a crippled manufacturing base, and a Federal Reserve that is devaluating the currency in order to prop up financial institutions that gambled trillions and lost; their bets became our losses as they were "covered by the house". Tea Party vs. Two Party
Wherein we learn tearing away outer trappings of the Light merely unclothes the Light ... making the Light shine even further and all the more, even though some try to pit us and others against each other to see who gets the biggest piece of what does not matter: Jesus is stripped of his clothing and soldiers gamble for his blood-soaked garments. National Catholic Reporter
He said they will gamble in any country, whether it is casinos or horseracing tracks.
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He paused and thought about doubling down, but seemed afraid to put out the extra money on such an insecure gamble.
They drink, they gamble, they fight, and they claim compo.
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He guided "tenderfeet," charging exorbitant rates; he gambled Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
In the twelfth round, Gamble put in a tremendous facer, that split his opponent's nose, and the claret flew in all directions.
He who had once negotiated with the nawab of Bengal to build a trading station on the banks of the Hoogly and traded horses and sugar in Persia and on the Malay archipelago; he who lost cargoes and gambled on trades now was building fifty Anglican churches. THE DIAMOND
Daylight still engaged in daring speculations, as, for instance, at the impending outbreak of the Japanese-Russian War, when, in the face of the experience and power of the shipping gamblers, he reached out and clutched practically a monopoly of available steamer-charters. Chapter X
Unwilling to churn out a quickie soccer novel to pay the bills, Owen, with the help of his professional gambler father, lands a job dealing blackjack and spinning the roulette wheel at a London casino.
I'm 31 and a compulsive gambler. The Sun
They offer cut-rate fares — gamblers can pay $12 round-trip from Chinatown to the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and get a $60 bonus at the casino. NYC bus crash spotlights cut-rate bus companies
You can take a gamble on getting a higher rate of interest by putting it into high - risk shares.
Frank Gorshin and Shirley Jones play a con artist couple who have gambled and grifted their way into the good life.
You may have been a great gambler but you've backed the wrong horse this time.
And when it comes to problem gamblers, too, let's not tell them they're diseased or zombified.
My father was a gambler who wore tailor-made silk suits and Italian shoes and had his fingernails manicured once a week.
What about whatshisname, the gambler, who surely ought to be in jail by now?
Petty criminals and gamblers muse, bicker and banter. Times, Sunday Times
Last night his gamble backfired as he was effectively left without a party in the Commons to lead. The Sun
Pentecostals do not drink, gamble, or engage in extramarital sex; so all of that formerly illicit energy can go into either business or education. God’s Country
I think it makes it more interesting when it's a bit of a gamble sometimes.
Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.
Within months she was a heroin addict, pregnant with their first child, and at his behest prostituting herself in Las Vegas to alcoholic gamblers to support both their habits.
The changes will also lead to an increase in the number of problem gamblers, the study concludes.
His research interests include the treatment of pathological gambling, gambling-related cognitive psychopathology, and concurrent disorders among gamblers.
If he endorses Clinton, well, it is a gamble and I don't think he would risk his political life to do so, especially when his campagne is all against Washington insider. Blitzer: Could John Edwards finally pick a candidate?
Also, I'm starting to come around to the thinking that the costs of GHG emmision reduction in developed countries may be low enough to justify the gamble, but there are still a whole lot small issues that keep from making the leap. What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
The alcoholic abstains from drinking; the compulsive gamble stops betting; the addict stops using.
But his most fruitful gamble has been his punt on the technology behind the BSE test.
Some quietly, like Nick Nolte as a gravel-voiced trainer-turned-owner, seeking redemption for a lost horse; and some loudly, most notably Kevin Dunn channeling Dennis Franz as a dyspectic gambler in a wheelchair, part of a gang of four shaggy underdogs including a scraggly Jason Gedrick, plus Ian Hart and Ritchie Coster who end up with a personal stake in what horse makes it to the winners' circle. Weekend TV in Review: Good Wife, Luck, Spartacus, Hallmark's Moon
How useful is it to tell overweight people or gamblers that they have a disease?
After Independence, orphaned and alone at seventeen, Jackson apprenticed in the law at Salisbury, North Carolina, and developed a reputation as a wild young man who drank, gambled, and roistered. A Country of Vast Designs
The essential problem with compulsive gamblers, however, is their blindness to this pathological desire to lose.
Dad was a big gambler, so the family went to a lot of county fairs. Times, Sunday Times
Traditionalists naysayed his gamble on commodity components, but Cal Poly San Luis Obispo aerospace engineering professor Jordi Puig-Suari, one of the originators of the CubeSat movement and inventor of the P-POD deployer, argues that Kalman opened the field to a wider user base. Nanosatellites Take Off
Whip It," the 1980 song that was the anthem of the band Devo's rage against a society dehumanized by industry and commercialism, is now the theme of a Procter & Gamble Co. Boing Boing
He slid the money over to the other gambler
I believe it is a profession in which people can do a lot of good and I was prepared to take a gamble with the job.
A recognised trait among gamblers is that you are likely to spend more when you are not physically handing over money.
It may well be that the words were the fortuitous effect of wind, but the message they convey is clear, and I think our subjects would not gamble on the fortuity.
He usually gambled sums of money between five and one hundred dollars, bottles of champagne, pairs of boots, or new hats.
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There are already 80 casino operations and owners fear the star's Vegas-style resort will bankrupt them by luring away gamblers.
The (2) second site will be a full out Casino site where people can gamble.
I have often wondered why a man who indulged in this sport was called a gambler, as the term "gamester," used many years ago, seems decidedly more appropriate. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
As a gambler this really means that you need to pay attention to not just your odds of winning, but also to your bankroll: betting a substantial portion of your bankroll is a good way to go broke even when you've got a considerable advantage! ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
He gambled right: No criminal charges against Pease or the others were filed, though Gonzalez sued him in civil court for trespassing and theft, and Pease and the Marin Countybased In Defense of Animals, which had been actively opposing Guillermos company, sued Sonoma Foie Gras for violating anticruelty laws. The Foie Gras Wars
While most newcomers who gain admittance to the NBA's lucrative members club pay their dues on court, he instead gambled vast sums that he had yet to earn in the hope of greater long-term fulfilment across the Atlantic.
But Congress is ready to reach for our wallets at the behest of President Bush and Wall Street lobbyists who threaten us with a 1932 style Depression if they do not get $700 billion for the debts of Wall Street gamblers and financial inebriates! Eric Cantor Kills Bail Out
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Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.
Any theatre which presents a drama about poker lays itself open to critics punning madly about it ‘taking a gamble’ or ‘playing for high stakes’.
Bennett also said that he gambles almost entirely on slot machines and video poker.
Initially, however, the gamble seemed to pay off, as the Japanese armed forces outmanoeuvred and outfought their opponents in campaigns which brought victories in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Burma, and the Philippines.
All politics involves risk, a gamble. Times, Sunday Times
This Damon Runyon tale of Broadway in the 1940s, has a melee of characters including gamblers, nightclub performers and Salvationists seeking to reform wayward inhabitants of Times Square in New York.
The example of restraint which would have resulted from the sparing of the dictator's life, and possibly encouraged similar expressions from opposition forces sympathetic to Saddam, has been tossed aside in Bush and Maliki's pyretic rush forward to some imagined crushing victory that they would gamble even more of our soldiers 'lives to achieve. Three Thousand Wake-Up Calls In Iraq
They were faced with bankruptcy but there was enough expertise within the company to take a gamble on a change of direction.
They are free to play and users do not gamble real money. Times, Sunday Times
My father and I took a gamble and made a lowball offer - tens of thousands less than the original asking price - with the idea that I could afford monthly payments myself.
The internet is a major gambling hall for punters where they play poker bingo cards whatever; gamblers even get to play lotto online.
Because treatment tends to be individually focused, most family members of pathological gamblers never receive the care they need.
The world's leading fashion-magazine publisher is taking a huge gamble that it can also become a fashion etailer. Times, Sunday Times
Till his conversion he had led the ordinary life of the young man of good birth at that time; he was somewhat vain of his appearance, he had wenched and gambled; but at least on one occasion he had shown rare magnanimity and he had always been honourable, loyal, generous and brave. The Summing Up
He's gambled away all his father's legacy.
There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!
LAS VEGAS - With slot floors looking more and more alike, casinos jockeying for the latest hot games are using another tool to woo gamblers: custom-designed jackpots.
One aspect of gambling that few people are aware of is that about one in five New Zealanders who regularly gamble on gaming machines have a gambling problem.
I was told they came to gamble their pension checks away every month.
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Slightly dotty but with a taste for high-risk gambles, Henderson hired the seasoned pro Van Damm to manage the Windmill.
For somebody with a name and a reputation, it was a gamble to come here and give it everything he's got.
Which also explains why, when Procter & Gamble decided to put out Tide in retro-packaging at Target this month, the marketing johnnies made it clear that the vintage boxes would only be offered May 22 to June 10. Disney's Movie Vault: Scarily Creating a Fantasia of Scarcity
So traders were free to gamble with other people 's money. Times, Sunday Times
This was a bit of a gamble, for the regular army combat troops did not possess the same high degree of natural talents as the Special Forces people.
On one side of the river there is a fishing village of mat and attap hovels on stilts raised a few feet above the slime of a mangrove swamp; and on the other an expanse of slime, with larger houses on stilts, and an attempt at a street of Chinese shops, and a gambling-den, which I entered, and found full of gamblers at noonday. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
We took a bit of a gamble on our pit strategy because we felt we didn't have anything to lose, and it almost paid off for us.
Jones, 54, of Waukesha, foolishly "gambled" by dealing drugs and by lying to his lawyer about being beaten and tortured in a POW camp for nearly four months before escaping, the judge said. Ary Jones
It was a gamble, that the economy could grow fast enough to sustain the repayments.
I had thought they were chronic gamblers.
Lincoln reviewed recent riotous incidents, beginning with the Vicksburg gamblers, moving to Madison County's purported slave insurrection, and ending with McIntosh's grisly death.
Conversely, Hawaiians were traditionally the biggest gamblers of Polynesia - going so far as to wager their own lives in surfing competitions - and they made fermented drinks of kava roots.
As the plucky younger side you expected them to gamble. Times, Sunday Times
Every yard has its boozers, shirkers, grumps, gamblers and cack-handed riders.
They played knur and spell, flew pigeons (they still do), fought cocks, coursed rabbits with whippets, gambled on anything and everything and drank prodigiously.
What bugs me is that we weren't told it was a gamble.
Where the gamble could really backfire is if one of his two hookers suffers an injury within 72 hours of a game. Times, Sunday Times
Setting up this business was a bit of a gamble.
It was a big gamble selling the house to send me to an academy. Times, Sunday Times
It's a bit of a gamble, though, and there's also the question of selling your house after having rented it out for a year, which the experts say is never a great policy.
During his music years, Gamble did some serious thinking and came to realize that the drive for civil rights brought negative baggage along with it.
There was a strong element of a gamble on the future in any psychiatric hospital closure.
Many of those seminar attendees are taking an enormous gamble on apartment rents remaining high.
I'd gathered Santa Fe was an extravagant, wide-open community, but even I was astonished at the amounts I saw change hands that night; the gamblers of Santa Fe, whether they were drunk traders, flash greasers, desperate immigrants, cold-eyed swells with pistols prominently displayed in their waistbands, or even the couple of tonsured priests who had an apparently bottomless satchel of coin and crossed themselves before every cast of the dice, were evidently no pikers. Isabelle
It was time for a last desperate gamble.
We chose to gamble with the more direct train to Pavonia-Newport, hoping the rain would let up before we got there.
He gambles on football, thinks Las Vegas is heavenly and isn't averse to extensive investment in the stock market.
The show tells of the fortunes, and misfortunes, of Magnolia, the daughter of the owner of the showboat and her gambler husband Gaylord Ravenal.
The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London's Berkeley Square.
A small, ragtag band of idealists facing overwhelming odds decides to gamble on a course of action judged either foolish or brilliant, depending on the outcome.
If the money's not spent on essentials like a €7 beef roll a decent investment if you need sustenance after a night drinking outdoors in Shop Street then it's gambled.
The probability of winning lottery prizes are the basic risk dimensions that may help determine whether a person gambles on a particular activity in the first place.
Gamblers aren't shying away from them, though some dedicated coin droppers dislike the loss of the metallic sounds of money changing hands.
I took a little bit of a gamble and just tried to go for it.
If you don't already have a lot of equity, borrowing against your home in hopes that market appreciation will increase your equity is a dangerous gamble.
Junkets, a fixture in the Macau gambling market, bring high-spending gamblers to the casinos, issue them credit and collect on debts in exchange for commission. Galaxy Benefits From Macau Boom
An exhaustive study convinced everyone except he that he had gambled on the game, gambled on the Reds and violated the only unbreakable moral code of the sport.
The prime minister has once again gambled on an explosive acceleration in economic growth that has yet to materialise.
I know that interest rates might fall this year, so it's a bit of a gamble to take a fix at this stage, but with three young children, it's so much easier to budget.
We've obviously taken a bit of a gamble with me wicket-keeping.
Procter & Gamble believes people will still spend money for a new kind of carwash experience. Marketplace
Shane Bradley is a 28-year-old writer, gambler and soul-searching drifter.
The last nine years have seen one of the most foolish gambles in history - doomed to fail. The Sun
Some of it they gamble on the price of tin, or the dollar going down, or whether there'll be floods in Asia.
Chen's action was an obvious and willful provocation and a high - stake gamble.
The Tax Code also requires casinos to gather personal data on their gamblers for reports.
Where's that little pale printer's devil, the one they call the gambler's ghost? Down the Mother Lode
Goodness knows what Gamblers Anonymous make of it all, because one thing is certain: despite the glossy bumph and tales of riches, there are always going to be a lot more losers, than winners.
If we go ahead with growing GM maize here, it will be the thin end of a very thick wedge, and a huge political gamble.
About a third of the funds deposited by gamblers went to the poker companies as revenue, known as the "rake," prosecutors said. Eleven Charged in Federal Crackdown on Online-Poker Companies
If reliability is unknown or unknowable, then they just charge a high premium and take a gamble, hoping to spread a loss to other less-risky areas.
France 2, a state-owned channel, broadcasts its news at the same time, and gambled on his resigning.
This is a comic take on the nature of luck and the power of faith from the perspective of a cancer patient and her compulsive gambler husband.

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