Example Sentences

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“We were gambling our whole circus on a one-night deal.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

The people steering the ship of these companies knew they were gambling on bad odds.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2022

When I watched City recently, their defenders were gambling.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2015

Had those who were gambling understood what they were doing, we should have no particular sympathy for them.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2012

He next went up to some Burmans who were gambling, and dispersed them, after doing one of them some slight injury.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden