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long shot

NOUN
  1. a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards
  2. a contestant that is unlikely to win

How To Use long shot In A Sentence

  • One of the great modern managerial careers now hinges on a long shot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chelsea are a 20-1 long shot to win the championship.
  • he is the best by a long shot
  • He's still a long shot to start, and could be a redshirt candidate, but could also easily see the field in nickel or dime packages early in the year. Around the BigEast Conference
  • It was a long shot but might be worth the effort, at least to ascertain the facts. Broken Lives
  • It's a long shot, but you could try phoning him at home.
  • KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Jaimy Gordon's novel "Lord of Misrule," which won the National Book Award for fiction last month, was such a long shot that even Ms.
  • In all the calendar of "long shots," the political pull is the rangiest and most cocksure uncertainty. Tattlings of a Retired Politician
  • Tykwer sets up nearly every scene, every location, with long shots in which people are dwarfed by the massive, rigidly designed buildings that loom over them, buildings in which the grids of glass and steel are emphasized with the poeticized precision of Saul Bass' famed opening to Hitchcock's North By Northwest. The International
  • The Ghanaians are the only African team to advance thus far -- Ivory Coast still could, but is a long shot, and the other four are out. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
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