How to use gambler in a sentence

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• If a gambler plays a fair game repeatedly, his payoff over time is a martingale.From the entry martingale
• The gamblers cashed in their remaining chips at the end of the night.From the entry cash in
• If a gambler repeatedly plays a game with negative expectation, his payoff over time is a supermartingale.From the entry supermartingale
• If a gambler repeatedly plays a game with positive expectation, his payoff over time is a submartingale.From the entry submartingale
• The gambler staked everything on one throw of the dice.From the entry throw
• I try to avoid the company of gamblers.From the entry avoid
• Some gamblers make wagers all day long.From the entry wagers
• The gambler gazed at the undealt cards, desperate to know whether the ace of hearts was still among them.From the entry undealt
• The gambler immediately rewagered his winnings and lost them.From the entry rewager
• A clever gambler wagers just enough to get ahead of the game, but not so much that he could be knocked out.From the entry wagers
• She holds that passive index funds beat actively managed ones: she says that "set it and forget it," when done right, beats playing the market as a gambler.From the entry hold
• His father had been a worthless gambler, usually drunk, always mean.2014, Madeline Baker, The Angel and the Outlaw, page 41. From the entry over and done
• When gamblers get a positive roll of the dice, they think that their luck will continue.2012 November 14, Lisa Jewell, “Are you a cyberchondriac?”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry cyberchondriac
• Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill was once home to a mix of gamblers, thugs and movie stars.2010 February 24, Julie Makinen, “A Green and Gold Gem in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times (In Transit section), New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Diamond Hill
• There are gamblers who get a charge out of playing the odds and thrive off risk.2009 January 2, Alina Tugend, “Coping Skills and Horrible Imaginings”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Nov 2011. From the entry get a charge out of
• An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.2008, Ed Taggert, “High Rollers Crapped out by Feds”, in When the Rackets Reigned, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 187. From the entry lugger
• These regular and committed gamblers are not engaged in a flutter, or a romantic adventure.1976, William Robson, Welfare State and Welfare Society: Illusion and Reality, Taylor & Francis. From the entry flutter
• You wouldn't want one of your agents doing something like that just to convict a pennyante gambler.1967, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, Computer Privacy…. From the entry pennyante
• But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1928, pages 89–90. From the entry evince
• "You are a heart and soul gambler." ¶ "Confess, however, I am beau joueur.1904, Charles Lever, The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly, Little, Brown, and Company, page 352. From the entry beau joueur
• Hence, Dalmia comes out sounding like a gambler at heart, not unlike the famous Yudhishthira, the 'unhero' of the Mahabharata.2015, Thomas A Timberg, The Marwaris: From Jagat Seth to the Birlas. From the entry unhero
• Echoing Mollie’s wish to stay in the machine zone, they spoke of gamblers’ desire for “time-on-device,” or TOD.2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, page 3. From the entry machine zone
• New Orleans gamblers are said to use the bones (also called coon dogs and Texas toothpicks) for luck.2011, Joanne O'Sullivan, Book of Superstitious Stuff, →ISBN. From the entry Texas toothpick
• The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel, becoming a traffic-light hopping "amber gambler" and drinking and driving.2007 December 24, “Drivers warned over the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’”, in Bolton News, UK, retrieved 29 Aug 2011. From the entry amber gambler
• He was a sporting man, a gambler.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry juice
• 'He's a very serious gambler, Miss Lynd,' he said.1953, Ian Fleming, “The High Table”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 71. From the entry extra-sensory perception
• The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum.1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Europe in 1960”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry mesembryanthemum
• Lottery Corporation commissioned two independent studies that found its voluntary self-exclusion program isn't always catching gamblers who've requested help in staying away.2011 August 18, “Problem gambler crackdown coming to B.C. casinos”, in CBC News. From the entry catch
• The trouble is, in this account of a gambler seeking shelter from the storm in the numbness of cardplay, the prose is similarly, symptomatically numb.2011, Richard Gray, A History of American Literature. From the entry cardplay
• Fargo wasn't sure what difference it made if one gambler passed something to another, unless it was to be used in cheating, a shiner maybe.2003, Jon Sharpe, Trailsman #258: Casino Carnage. From the entry shiner
• He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything.2002, Markus Zusak, The Messenger, page 158. From the entry shonky
• And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 201. From the entry yenta
• When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them.1973, Knapp Commission, New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, page 83. From the entry flake
• We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly.1969, Edmund Bergler, Selected Papers of Edmund Bergler, 1933-1961, page 697. From the entry hysteric
• We therefore recommend that the finest gambler available to the Service should be given the necessary funds and endeavour to out-gamble this man.1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 19. From the entry outgamble
• If my boy is not tempted to gamble at a fashionable card party he will never learn from the degenerate, blackleg gamblers in the joint.1918, Alexander Corkey, The Vision of Joy, or When "Billy" Sunday Came to Town. From the entry degenerate
• What are the odds that an alcoholic and degenerate gambler with no money management skills could survive in a city that ate addicts for lunch and dreams for dinner?2013, Artie Lange, Crash and Burn. From the entry degenerate
• It is essential for the compulsive shop-stealer to be charged by police, for the gambler to repay his debts, the violent alcoholic to repair the damaged furniture.2008, William Wilkie, The Home Psychiatrist, page 379. From the entry shop stealer
• Barely looking up from his smooth hands and the cards they held, the gambler said, “You're not a good enough cardplayer I'd have to double deal you."2003, Bill Brooks, Law for Hire, page 102. From the entry double deal

Meaning of gambler

1. noun One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
2. noun One who takes significant risks.

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Questions about gambler in a sentence

How do you use gambler in a sentence?

Gambler is used as a noun. For example: “If a gambler plays a fair game repeatedly, his payoff over time is a martingale.”

What is a short sentence with gambler?

“He was a sporting man, a gambler.”

What does gambler mean?

Gambler means one who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.