parlay
Example Sentences
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When Bill Drolet dropped his daughter off for her first year at St Andrews, he parlayed it into a golf trip with buddies.
The 36-year-old has parlayed interest in her daily musings into a one-woman publishing empire that is bringing in about $14,000 a month.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu for his part has managed to parlay diplomatic criticism into something palatable for both sides: military cooperation.
From Barron's
Rocco Commisso didn’t speak English when he arrived in the U.S., but he did play the accordion, a skill that he parlayed into an education.
Comedian Daniel Tosh even parlayed a desire to gawk at the web’s inept and unaware into a vicious update of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” that aired on Comedy Central for years.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
