Example Sentences

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The raffling of turkeys highlighted the food insecurity many families in the area are facing, Jurado said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

When no buyer was found, he suggested raffling off.

From BBC • May 15, 2023

They thought it was funny and weird that the event was raffling off a chocolate cake, she said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2023

He's already selling greeting cards, T-shirts, hats, wine glasses, footballs, placemats and Christmas ornaments, along with raffling off tickets to see him perform.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2022

“Yeah, Miss Battaglia, I’m sorry I’m a little late, but I had to take my little granchirren around the neighbor-hood. They raffling some rosaries for the sisters.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole