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Example sentences for: parlayed

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Once in the public eye, these fellows parlayed their chips.
The former model has parlayed her restaurant successes into a lifestyle TV show and a forthcoming magazine.
Now the University of New Orleans professor has parlayed a contributing editorship at George and a friendship with Kennedy into a job as a necropublicist.
He parlayed his foreign-man schtick into a job as Latka, the lovable foreign mechanic on the soon-to-be-hit series Taxi , which debuted in 1978.
In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , Peter Biskind chronicles how Beatty parlayed the heartthrob status he'd won from 1961's Splendor in the Grass into a controlling position as a producer.