Example sentences for: long-shot

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

  • Having won the Kentucky Derby at 31-1 odds (the longest long-shot winner since 1940), he surprised the bookmakers again by winning the Preakness at 8-1.

  • The media spin is that his announcement illustrates how long-shot candidates milk attention by dragging out their announcements.

  • It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is far behind.

  • John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a long-shot candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000.

  • And barring a long-shot legal victory, as of Jan.


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