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Within days, they had raffled off Matt Chapman and Matt Olson too.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Within minutes, the Athletics had raffled off Bassitt himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

The law traced Tom Jensen down to Seattle, heard that he had raffled off a nugget bracelet belonging to Sweet Marie on the boat, had cashed the gold dust at the Seattle assay office.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans had raffled to the defense of their hiding place and had hurriedly thrown up an emplacement for their machine guns.

From The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet by Driscoll, James R. [pseud.]