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Lottery in sentence

139 examples of Lottery in a sentence

The expected value of this lottery is two dollars; this is a lottery in which you should invest your money.
Now, a slightly different version of this lottery: imagine that the nine tickets are all owned by one fat guy named Leroy.
Most people won't play this lottery.
Jay Walker: You know, economists love to talk about the stupidity of people who buy lottery tickets.
I know, because I've interviewed about 1,000 lottery buyers over the years.
It turns out that the value of buying a lottery ticket is not winning.
The average lottery buyer buys about 150 tickets a year, so the buyer knows full well that he or she is going to lose, and yet she buys 150 tickets a year.
It remains to be seen whether the joy of anticipation is exactly equaled by the amount of disappointment after the lottery.
But certainly I see your point: that there can be some utility to buying a lottery ticket other than winning.
This is a slip one of the winners had, because the Tennessee lottery security officials were like, "Oh, no, this can't be true."
That is, discovery is like a lottery ticket.
And the more lottery tickets we buy, the higher our chances.
And it happens to be so that most scientists buy most of their lottery tickets in the first 10, 15 years of their career, and after that, their productivity decreases.
They're not buying any more lottery tickets.
The odds of winning this destructive genetic lottery increase over time, or if the new species is closely related to the virus’ usual host.
I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win.
So, actually, there was this recent lottery, a mega-jackpot lottery, that had a huge payoff, something like over a billion dollars.
And everyone in my office is pooling money to buy lottery tickets, and I'm not having any of this.
And we reward them with a lottery.
So to make it to age 100, you not only have to have had a very good lifestyle, you also have to have won the genetic lottery.
You would do it by lottery.
And so, like her, you, me, we have all won the lottery of life.
One of them is winning the lottery.
Because the fact is that a year after losing the use of their legs and a year after winning the lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives.
Joe is planning a guys weekend with one of his friends Gary Pervier (Mills Watson) when his wife Charity (Kaiulani Lee) wins $5,000 on the lottery and decides to take their young boy Brett (Billy Jayne as Billy Jacoby) with her on a trip to see her parents.
That's the lottery of going to see films I guess.
The premise was interesting enough, a winning lottery ticket in a secluded area and people who have reasons why they want the money.
A good lottery prize lets her organize a great banquet, following the best rules of French gastronomy.
But, as the movie develops, it becomes more precious, when Babette wins the lottery prize (after 30min movie), the show begins.
His goal is to win a gimmicky lottery type card game called Motorama.
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