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Example sentences for: gambled

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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.
The NYT runs the indictments story inside, adding that a nationwide survey of Division I basketball and football players showed that 4 percent said they had gambled on a game they had played in.
In Britain, where former Defense Secretary Michael Portillo gambled on his political future in the Conservative Party last week by admitting to youthful homosexual experiences, the Mail on Sunday published an opinion poll showing that "seven out of ten voters would accept a prime minister who had been homosexual in the past, and six out of ten would accept one who was openly gay."
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."
They drank, gambled and swore like, well, sailors.