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Example sentences for: betting

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

We know that knee-jerk cynicism is as uninteresting as persistent naiveté--although the former is the superior betting strategy if you're playing blackjack in Vegas with Death.
The betting is that neither side will let the crisis escalate, because their trade relationship is too cozy.
The financial crises that have shaken much of the world all started, at least in the first instance, with investors betting that the currency of the afflicted nation would fall in value against harder currencies such as the dollar.
are betting that the public will blame the president, not Congress, for squandering the money he has insisted be saved to shore up Social Security.
Bill Gross is betting that his ads alone, aimed at just one person, will be worth almost half that amount.