Example Sentences

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The hearing, at Leicester Town Hall, had been told Mr Ashton had been gambling more than 100 times a day, including early in the morning and late at night when his wife was asleep.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023

Dashcam video captured the encounter: Rodriguez said they had been gambling in Reno.

From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2017

The people his government had been gambling with all along.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2017

The lightest of the line of vessels was the one in which the watchmen had been gambling.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

This held no further information for Lush than that Gwendolen had been gambling.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George