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Example sentences for: gambled

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

When I took a trip to Atlantic City and gambled away the amount I had intended, she warned, A fool and his money are soon parted.
By taking away the jury's choice to consider a manslaughter conviction, Scheck gambled that they shared his ability to operate within a "narrowed framework."
Lewis, a Wall Street convert himself, interviews media hermit and Long-Term mastermind John Meriwether and his legion of smart "young professors" who gambled on market hyper-rationality to power their finance strategy (as Lewis explains, "things people did with money when they were frightened was an opportunity for more reasonable people to exploit").
They drank, gambled and swore like, well, sailors.
He gambled that he could raise enough money and drum up enough support in the New Hampshire polls to guarantee his credibility until the primary.