gamble
Example Sentences
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The gamble failed, and he was impeached and arrested.
From BBC
The service member can gamble and hope the judge agrees with him, but if he is wrong, he can lose his career and his freedom.
The great decisions, which are all on some level great gambles—the profession, the partner, the people and places you seek—have been made, the results are in.
“We are not going to gamble with lives. And we are not going to expect people to work or live in conditions that we would never accept for ourselves.”
From Los Angeles Times
He would later portray himself as a conscience-stricken and unwilling participant in Hitler’s crimes, and his gamble on the sympathy of the judges at Nuremberg paid off.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
