Words similar to gamble

Example sentences for: gamble

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

Ad agency Wells BDDP, which came up with the legendary "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing" campaign for Alka-Seltzer and convinced Braniff Airways to paint its planes a fluorescent fuchsia, goes out of business after losing $100 million accounts at Bristol-Myers and Procter & Gamble.
"One Hell of a Gamble" belongs in the last category.
So far the gamble has paid off.
The second is more local and specific to the set of circumstances pertaining in the ABC: why does a committee which has had a useful and influential life for more than fifty years suddenly reach a crisis point at which a significant proportion of its members are prepared to gamble on an incoming General Manager's reassessment of its role and put at risk its very existence?
Negotiating a tricky midlife career change, caught between rock and a hard place, Paul Simon figures that sometimes, as with Graceland , the gamble pays off.