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How to use the word bet., in a Sentence? Page #11

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At the time I was working for other guide services, and it was a huge uptick for all guide services across the country and across the world, every single trip, guides would make a bet on who would be the first guy to ask if we had read this book, Into Thin Air, and it would usually happen minutes into a trip. That happened for years.

Joseph Anderson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You need to know how to take your flights of fancy and make them reproducible by body presses, then weld, glue, and bolt them together, paint them, and then fill those shells with electrical systems and HVAC, at the very least, your best bet is to partner with a company that already knows how to do this, which is why the reports of talks with [contract manufacturer] Magna Steyr are fanning the flames even more.

Dan Roth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I hope my House colleagues will understand our best bet is to challenge this in court. That if we don’t fund the Department of Homeland Security, we’ll get blamed as a party.

Lindsey Graham

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I would bet a lot of other companies are looking at this very closely and will follow suit.

Robert Willens

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It will be -- when this legislation passes -- a criminal act to support terrorism, so, that is criminalizing speech rather than behavior. That one, I bet, will be tested in the courts.

Janice Stein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I got the call to come in and interview on Friday, Aug. 13, at 1:13 p.m. the 13th minute past the 13th hour, u.S. 13 is the route I had to take to get there. I bought a paper that day, and 103 was the winning lottery number. So I put a bet on a horse named Lucky Friday, who was running in the 13th race.

Thomas Fernsler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The impetus to set up a global trading market has been flagging over the last few years, if I were to place a bet, it probably won't happen.

Doug Boucher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch, like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on. Am I missing a new episode of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'?

Jennifer Lawrence

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a calculated bet that the shale producers in the U.S. can't withstand the pain the way OPEC can, and I think they're probably right.

Stuart Glickman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

India's a phenomenal bet.

Daniel Alpert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

No airline in the world will bet its future on fuel being low for 15 years.

Chief Executive Aengus Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The fact of climate change will be accepted and underscored, i think it would be a safe bet to suggest that the encyclical will be fairly concrete and specific and that there will likely be some specific ethical calls for action that will cause a certain amount of discomfort to a broad range of various populations from First World manufacturers to emerging Third World economies such as China.

James Bretzke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Betting on you was the right thing to do, that bet has paid off for America.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I would bet cash that these guys were known to the police, but it is hard to track them, especially in France, where there are so many of them.

Scott Stewart

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It will be very hard for sectors that bet on the overthrow of the government to reposition themselves in the current situation, there are other independent civil society groups that don't want to overthrow the government.

Lenier Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

All that dust on there. It'd be like an atomic bomb. i bet you if my sixth boy comes home, the needles will drop right off.

Neil Olson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I bet you if my sixth boy comes home, the needles will drop right off.

Neil Olson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This Alaskan Dream Cruises sailing includes complimentary shore excursions designed to showcase true Alaskan adventures and the native heritage, departures coincide with seasonal changes and animal migrations for the best weather and animal viewing opportunities. If you're only going to visit Alaska once, this itinerary is your best bet.

Annie Scrivanich

Found on CNN
9 years ago

After the training, thinking back, `Wow. I bet that person (I encountered) could be someone with autism,' now, knowing that ahead of time, we're just not going to automatically assume the negative.

Mark Boody

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Enough is enough. Washington already works really well for the billionaires and the big corporations and the lawyers and the lobbyists, but what about the families who lost their homes or their jobs or their retirement savings the last time Citi bet big on derivatives and lost?

Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are expecting liquidity to get weaker going into 2015, so we are shifting out of some corporate exposure and moving into traditional agency MBS, that's not because we want to make a bet on mortgages, but because we want to structure the portfolio to protect it, in case there is a liquidity crunch.

Frank Reda

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The guy is so arrogant, I bet he talks about himself in the third person.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For people who have patient capital, who have underwritten well, who are counting on the underlying fundamental demand/supply to pay out, there is still a lot of money to be made, for people who just wanted shipping exposure because it is a hot bet, they probably got their fingers burned a little bit.

Ahmed Hamdani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We think that Harvard is not a corporation and that profit shouldn't be our main motivator, our main motivator should be about the students. And how can we invest in fossil fuel companies that are threatening our futures? It's an immoral bet against my generation.

Chloe Maxmin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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