raffle
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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
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
Buffett has lavished praise on the executive for his preternatural ability to craft offbeat policies, including insuring Chicago’s tallest building against terrorist attacks and Pepsi against having to award a $1 billion raffle prize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
“We could have some craft tables for kids. And a raffle for a special wishing penny for the well. It’d be more gesture than anything else,” I said.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
Lohman-Janz created enamel pins and hosts raffles to encourage members to keep coming out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
They have held auctions, organized raffles and invited influencers to participate in promotional clips.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
In other attempted gimmicks, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is entering donors into raffles for Major League Soccer games or free tuition payments.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2023
Until the end of the wars Petra Cotes continued to support herself with the returns from her raffles and Aureliano Segundo was able to sack Úrsula's savings from time to time.
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
The event featured live music, and organizers raffled off 10 turkeys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
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 were raffling one off, and I won it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
When no buyer was found, he suggested raffling off.
From BBC ● May 15, 2023
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
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
