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Example sentences for: bets

How can you use “bets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In one sense, all bets were off, since volume was thin and a lot of people went home, in expectation of a disaster that has yet to arrive.
Maybe that's why most people go for the sure thing in Question 1 but are willing to go for the slightly riskier of the two bets in Question 2. (Click for an experiment that could test this hypothesis.)
7. "The Wall Street Journal said that traders blamed Tuesday's stock-market volatility on 'a change in the composition of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, shock at the soaring price of gold, rumors that some investment partnerships were madly selling stocks to cover losing bets against gold, end-of-month portfolio changes, anxiety over interest rates and worries about possible market troubles as the year 2000 approaches.'
The reviews haven't come out yet, but Culturebox bets on Bloom.
Quite straightforward and trustworthy, but I was making miniscule, unthreatening bets.