How to Use gambling in a Sentence

gambling

noun
  • In the gambling world, the Blazers have the third-best odds of landing the two-time All-Star.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 1 June 2023
  • Aut spent most of the cash gambling at the harbor casino, the FBI said.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
  • But the move in essence allowed sports gambling to resume in the city.
    — Matt Bonesteel, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
  • So, this pokes fun at that — the gloss and the misery of modern sports gambling.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Revenue missed in the Asian gambling hub of Macao and in Las Vegas.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Or maybe they’d be drawn by the gambling, which would at least bring them in for something.
    — John Carlisle and Photos By Ryan Garza, Freep.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • After all, the love of money is the root of all evil, and there’s a lot of money in sports gambling.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Here’s the deal: gambling is no longer for casinos and church basements.
    — Alex Watt, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • The city, the only place in China that allows gambling, has had a tough few years.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For years, loot boxes have been likened to a form of legal gambling.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
  • And the darkest part of the dark, the maddest part of the madness is the relentless gambling involved.
    — Truman Capote, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The sport couldn’t afford for Ohtani to be embroiled in a gambling scandal.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
  • The games in Paris, set to start July 26, will be the first to take place since legal gambling became widespread in the U.S.
    — Ece Yildirim,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 11 July 2024
  • Pro sports and writing about pro sports were, at first, a conduit for gambling.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
  • None of this means that gambling has become a clean business.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
  • As far as sports gambling goes in 2023, this was a risky proposition.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Launched in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, PrizePicks is not a gambling site.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The 39-year-old even mocked the gambling debt reports on stage during a performance last year.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Treat gambling as a form of entertainment and not a way to make money.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Be sure to keep up with our coverage for the latest betting and gambling news.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The result was that the tribe’s overall gambling revenue fell by more than 12 percent last year.
    — Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Not even the gambling gods, who favor Cleveland in Pittsburgh for the first time since 1989,can soothe the city’s anxiety.
    — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • What were once considered vices to be avoided — drug use and gambling — appear to be with us to stay.
    — Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The town is in the middle of the Golden Triangle and specializes in gambling and the sale of poached and endangered species.
    — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Drexler has specifically seen a rise in gambling issues among young males in the state.
    — Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Vegas and Monaco may both be gambling centers and playgrounds for the über rich.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The line between investing and gambling is quite fuzzy.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 July 2023
  • Which often equals overtime at the gambling shack a hop-skip from your family’s house.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Experts say many people don't clearly understand what a gambling problem looks like and how to address it.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Lansky left Havana, site of one of his gambling operations, during the Fidel Castro takeover in 1959.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025

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