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Example sentences for: lottery

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

Many universities hope to strike it rich with patents, but this is as foolish as playing the lottery, since most “technology licensing offices” don't even cover their operating costs.
You’ll also notice that gambling is a passion, whether it be cards, mah-jong, the lottery, or the horses.
After all, risk-lovers enjoy having all their eggs in one basket, which suggests they should pursue either crime or the lottery, but not both.
People who cross Lola's path are frozen in the frame, their futures telescoped in rapid-fire black-and-white snapshots: In one variation, a woman whom Lola bumps ends up destitute and prematurely dead; in another, she wins the lottery.
James Sensenbrenner , R-Wis., won the $250,000 D.C. lottery jackpot.