LOTTERY in a Sentence

Learn LOTTERY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

13 example sentences for LOTTERY, such as:

1. The winning number in the lottery.
2. Marriage is a lottery with more blanks than prizes.
3. Her life changed completely when she won the lottery.
4. She wheedled her husband into buying a lottery ticket.
5. The lottery is probably the most popular form of gambling.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOTTERY
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lottery
 n.  scheme for distribution of prizes by chance; gaming in which tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes
Classic Sentence:
1  He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  When a farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling or the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
3  This was agreed to, and Mrs. Phillips protested that they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
4  The winning number in the lottery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
Example Sentence:
1  The probability of winning the lottery is really very low.
2  Marriage is a lottery with more blanks than prizes.
3  Her life changed completely when she won the lottery.
4  She wheedled her husband into buying a lottery ticket.
5  The lottery is probably the most popular form of gambling.
6  We're having a lottery to raise money for homeless families.
7  The idea behind the national lottery is to raise money for good causes.
8  Dave, let's go to buy some lottery tickets, we have chance to win 1 million tonight.
9  Nothing excites Esther; even when she won the state lottery, she still preserved her air of bovine calm.