Example sentences for: crapshoot

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

  • Although Greenspan did speak to the idea that investors are starting to see stocks as not much more risky than bonds (an idea associated with the authors of Dow 36,000 --see Slate 's "Crapshoot" for a critique of this idea), the real focus of his speech was something much broader, namely the way financial panics tend to eradicate the delicate distinctions between different classes of assets, distinctions that any market system needs in order to invest for the future.

  • And now, thanks to Gene Sperling, we can bury the metaphors of the casino--a crapshoot, a spin of the wheel, a stacked deck--replacing them with the vibrant metaphors of the rec room, i.e., Twister.

  • It's too bad Debunker (someone suggested we call it "CrapShoot") isn't up and running now, because there were a couple of nice examples in the State of the Union .

  • Point 2: As I've argued above, unless you've written a symphony that was performed by the New York Philharmonic by the time you're 16, getting into Harvard is something of a crapshoot.


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