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Gambled

Gamble \Gam"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gambling.] [Dim. of game. See 2d Game.] To play or game for money or other stake.

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gambled

vb. (en-past of: gamble)

Usage examples of "gambled".

Early in the Xanadu Hotel history a Texas woman worth many millions had gambled in the casino and he had presented her with an antique Japanese fan that cost him fifty dollars.

Fumrniro was so excited that he gambled like a madman that night and dropped over three hundred thousand dollars.

Every fif­teen minutes or so Valerie would run down and see if they were OK, and finally she took them all to our suite of rooms and I gambled until four o’clock in the morning.

He never gambled on truly creative ideas until they had been proved at other studios.

They gambled with a frenzy that set a new record for the "Drop," except of course for New Year's Eve.

He drank heartily, he gambled always, he was excessively fond of women.

Therefore he reasoned that when they gambled they should be treated as gods.

He gambled modestly and then with a purse supplied privately by Gronevelt, and if his markers exceeded a certain amount they were put on hold to be paid by his future winnings.

So the China traders gambled heavily, buying votes, supporting members of Parliament who believed in free competition and free trade, writing to newspapers and to members of the Government.

In consort with the other China traders, he gambled ever more heavily, buying ever more votes and continuing to harass and exhort until Parliament was howling for the total destruction of the Company.

Those on the beach who had won their wagers cheered mightily, for huge sums of money were gambled on which ship would be the first home and which ship would be the first back.

He knew that Jin-qua must have gambled his life and his soul and his house and his future and that of his friends and his sons to amass so much bullion secretly.

Now the complex financial arrangements on which Robb and Struan had gambled so heavily for two years would be cemented.

Of course if he gambled wrong and the stock had gone up, he would have to pay the difference.

No, I'm a civilized person from the Four Provinces who, because her rich father gambled away all his money, was sold by him into concubinage to become Number Two Wife for this chief of police of the foreign devilsl So go piss in your hat!