raffle

With many Uruguayans opposed to footing the bill, organizers resorted to a raffle to help finance the visit here, offering locals the chance to win an apartment, trips to Rome and 10 pint-size hatchback cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The facade is currently getting a lick of new white and burgundy paint, financed by the sale of raffle tickets.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

For those who hit all bookstores — with stamps to show for it — the grand prize awaits: a raffle entry for a $325 gift card.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Yamal’s family had entered a charity raffle organized by the Spanish newspaper Diario Sport and the United Nations Children’s Fund, known as UNICEF, and they won a spot in a promotional photo shoot with Messi.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Those hard times when Chokecherry Middle School couldn’t sell enough raffle tickets to even pay for the prize might as well be a hundred years ago.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

It raffles off free Cane’s for a year to a “Lucky 20” customers who show up within the first few hours of an opening, offering Caniacs another reason to camp outside in the parking lot.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

These might include old-school offerings like block parties, back-to-school events, give-aways and raffles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

They have held auctions, organized raffles and invited influencers to participate in promotional clips.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

As California historian Kevin Starr wrote, Culver used gimmicks and giveaways and stunts like kids’ boxcar races, raffles, parades, and, memorably, a polo game played from the running boards of Model Ts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

He offered Seabiscuit mementoes for newspaper raffles and sent oversized Seabiscuit Christmas cards to scores of reporters.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

As for Halloween night, she’s hosting a private party called Creature Camp; no raffled invites for that one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

He campaigned on X to get the pay plan approved, and the company raffled off a chance for a tour of a Tesla production plant with the CEO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Between Thursday, June 19, and Sunday, June 22, participating chefs and restaurants throughout Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego are presenting unique pies to be sold or raffled whole or by the slice.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2025

Players on both teams wore memorial jerseys bearing Johnson's name and number, which will be raffled.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023

The swag Wilfrido raffled off was pretty cool.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

They thought it was funny and weird that the event was raffling off a chocolate cake, she said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2023

A new extension to a school in Gloucestershire has just been opened, in part thanks to money raised by raffling off a signed Coldplay guitar.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2022

He's already selling greeting cards, T-shirts, hats, wine glasses, footballs, placemats and Christmas ornaments, along with raffling off tickets to see him perform.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2022

Chen and Mandell are raffling hand pies and selling tortillas, respectively, for the fundraiser.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

“Yeah, Miss Battaglia, I’m sorry I’m a little late, but I had to take my little granchirren around the neighbor-hood. They raffling some rosaries for the sisters.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole