raffle
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The raffle has become a family project, and their children have helped with promotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
Customers can get stamps from trying different food and drinks and later be entered into a raffle for prizes.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
As many as 1,000 fans showed up on the first day of the trial, and many would line up starting at 5 a.m. for raffle tickets that would allow them to enter the courtroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Mom told me she had entered my name in a raffle at a fair, and I’d won a helicopter ride.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
From raffles to ultramarathons and charity nights, family and friends have fundraised meaning Dan and Anna could set off for a trial abroad in October.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
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
She had arrived in Macondo in the middle of the war with a chance husband who lived off raffles, and when the man died she kept up the business.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Mitchell previously raised thousands of pounds for charity when he raffled tickets to see the 2022 Europa league final in Seville, where Rangers lost to Eintracht Frankfurt.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
He autographed “Star Wars”-themed posters that are being raffled off.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 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
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
A family is raffling their four-bedroom home to raise the funds to hopefully upsize with their seven children after being refused a new mortgage.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2022
Hoang will be raffling eight loaves of milk bread from the restaurant, each feeding roughly four people, to be picked up at the winners’ convenience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
The piano had been rolled out from the social hall, and Miss Lulu was playing what she must have thought was an appropriate cake raffling song.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
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