gambling chance

Example Sentences

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When a business becomes shortsighted and is afraid to take a good gambling chance, it has started on a downgrade.

From Time Magazine Archive

The younger men took the gambling chance with it.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

Wheat is scarce for export even in the States just now, so I'm taking a gambling chance on getting this to port before the first quantities come from the north.

From Harrigan by Brand, Max

It was good, in fact, for thirty cents cash, with a gambling chance up to five dollars; and the wise ones began to buy.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane