Example Sentences

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If not, the sharps will be betting that Vogel doesn’t last past the All-Star break, and that’s probably right.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2021

A yet-untold number of Americans will be betting their lives on him to do it again.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2020

I think I speak for a lot of An bettors when I say that I will be betting on him again soon.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 20, 2020

With 44 years separating Hoketsu's first and second Games, few will be betting against him making his fourth Olympics in four years time.

From Reuters • May 24, 2016

But if Time Warner Cable does rebuff Charter’s bid, it will be betting that history will repeat itself, and that it will fare more like Illumina than Leap Wireless.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2014