GAMBLE in a Sentence

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A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAMBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gamble
 v.  play or game for money or other stake; lose or squander by gaming
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  And finally she decided that, because he had little to do besides gamble and had few enough nice friends in Atlanta, he sought her out solely for companionship's sake.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  But when she had gone to bed, he and Mrs Bolton would gamble on till two and three in the morning, safely, and with strange lust.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
4  The upshot was, Sir Clifford raised Mrs Bolton's wages a hundred a year, and she could gamble on that.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
5  In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  You've seen the hotels and the museums and the balls and the gambling houses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Scrapes about women, several shootings, gun running to the revolutionists in Central America and, worst of all, professional gambling were included in his career, as Atlanta heard it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  And he seemed to take it as a personal affront that I did not starve but put my poker playing to excellent advantage and supported myself royally by gambling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  And they couldn't uphold it if it were known that gambling money and speculator's money and Carpetbag money was behind it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  Ah, well, they wouldn't remember that; besides, it was the idea of the gambling debt that frightened Percy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
11  I hear she is interesting herself now in that silly Silverton boy, who has had his head turned by Carry Fisher, and has been gambling so dreadfully.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  When a farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling or the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
13  "Wide open" gambling and debauchery made the city pleasing to "trade," but burglaries and holdups did not.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
14  Many of the saloons in Packingtown had pool tables, and some of them bowling alleys, by means of which he could spend his evenings in petty gambling.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  Afterward they drifted into a roulette parlor, and Jurgis, who was never lucky at gambling, dropped about fifteen dollars.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  It was time for a last desperate gamble.
2  Her publishers knew they were taking a gamble when they agreed to publish such an unusual novel.
3  He used to gamble all his cash on pay day.
4  By gambling we lose both time and treasure, two things most precious to the life of man.
5  The government is framing a new bill to put a cap on gambling.
6  The lottery is probably the most popular form of gambling.
7  This is an article that takes the lid off the world of professional gambling.
8  They are more than twice as likely as other Americans to condemn gambling as 'always morally wrong.'
9  The libertine took pleasure in gambling away his family money.
10  Donald Trump's latest casino in Atlantic City is the most ostentatious gambling palace in the East.
11  Greater Tokyo, with legions of wealthy retirees among its 35m residents, could handily outstrip tiny Singapore as a gambling hub.
12  The federal government gambled hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funds to work on the project.
13  I gambled all my winnings on the last race.
14  They gambled on the result of a race.
15  I gambled that they wouldn't shoot.