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Gambler in sentence

52 examples of Gambler in a sentence

This was a good character driven story about a degenerate gambler that pushes it too far.
It would take a brave gambler to bet on ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the US Senate any time soon.
But his efforts increasingly look like the work of an immature gambler.
The gambler's close kin is the political "troublemaker," who pursues his soaring ambitions by any means necessary, whatever the risks and regardless of the cost to others.
He is a gambler, but not for the highest stakes.
An energetic and daring gambler, Sarkozy is taking a high but legitimate risk that he can retake the moral (and political) high ground.
When asked why Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power, the longtime Soviet politician Andrei Gromyko allegedly joked, “Khrushchev was so reckless a gambler, we would be lucky to hold on to Moscow.”
John McCain has shown throughout his career a penchant for risk-taking; in his memoirs, he proudly calls himself a gambler.
But while Abe may be known for his boldness, he is no reckless gambler.
He was so reckless a gambler, we would be lucky to hang on to Moscow if he continued.”
Like a gambler reliant on a loan shark, Cambodia has, in recent years, racked up massive, opaque debts to China, which it cannot repay.
In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
He is one of the most dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience.
The tragedian had won it from a gambler who had killed his man in a quarrel over it; the man who had died for it had bought it at a low price from the absconding clerk of a diamond merchant.
I should make an excellent gambler if I were not too hot-headed; but I was hot-headed, just as if I had been drinking.
I have something to say to you.""Certainly, madame," said Porthos, winking to himself, as a gambler does who laughs at the dupe he is about to pluck.
That jaw was the jaw of the private Charles Fox, the gambler, the libertine, the drunkard.
Yashvin, a gambler, a rake, a man not merely without principles but with bad principles, was Vronsky's best friend in the regiment.
It was the gambler Myaskin whom he knew, returning from the club.
"How does he manage to be here, the old gambler?
Old fool! old gambler!""God preserve you!
The habit or the need of seeing me which Marguerite had now contracted had this good result: that it forced me to leave the gaming-table just at the moment when an adroit gambler would have left it.
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