How to Use bet in a Sentence
- He has a bet on the game.
- His brother won the bet.
- He lost the bet and had to pay his brother five dollars.
- He paid his brother five dollars to settle the bet.
- He and his brother have a bet about who can finish his chores first.
- He made a bet with his brother that he could finish his chores first.
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That bet has a short shelf life.
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Shreyans Mehta,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Our deals page is your best bet.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
16 June 2026
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Time for many to place their bets.
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Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Our deals page is your best bet.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
25 June 2026
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Your best bet is to toss it out.
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Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
10 Feb. 2026
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Five years on, all bets are off.
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Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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All of these bets have paid off, and then some.
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Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
6 May 2026
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All bets are worth 1 unit plus the juice.
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Brad Evans,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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All bets are worth 1 unit plus the juice.
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Brad Evans,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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All bets are worth 1 unit plus the juice.
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Brad Evans,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Your best bet is just to dig in with a spoon.
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Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
28 May 2026
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Their best bet is to play the hand they were dealt.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Rose’s bets were said to be on his teams to win.
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Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Time will tell whether that turns out to be the right bet.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2026
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Your best bet is to throw them out and start over each fall.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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His bet turned out to be correct.
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Natalie Jarvey,
Fortune,
1 Sep. 2025
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And those were just the legal bets.
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Sequoia Carrillo,
NPR,
5 Apr. 2026
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The utter lack of a hedge on this bet.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Going short is a bet that a stock will drop.
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Zev Fima,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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But that’s only a bet right now.
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Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Five years later, that bet has paid off.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Moulton’s not alone in this bet.
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Juliegrace Brufke,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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At the end of the day, go bet on yourself.
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Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Mar. 2026
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Get your stake back in bonus bets after a loss.
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Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
- I'll bet that he makes the next shot.
- He bet $5 on the game.
- I bet against the favorite and I lost.
- He always bets that the favorite will win.
- I wouldn't bet against her. She's very likely to win this race.
- He lost a lot of money by betting on college football and basketball.
- Carmakers are betting that people will want to buy larger, more expensive cars this year.
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Those who want to bet will bet.
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Cláudia Nunes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2026
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Maybe this will be the year (but don’t bet on it).
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Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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And betting against the house does not work.
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Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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If more people bet on a horse, its odds drop.
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Neil Greenberg,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Those betting lines have moved.
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Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Porter even bet on the Raptors to lose.
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Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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And at least for those who have bet on creators, that’s worth a lot.
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Ct Jones,
Rolling Stone,
12 Feb. 2024
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That’s what the Sharks are betting on.
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Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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If fewer people bet on it, the odds rise.
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Neil Greenberg,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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New users will have plenty of angles to bet on this game.
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Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Weaver is not the betting front-runner for the job.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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Venture has been betting on this for years.
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Tenzin Seldon,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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That’s a lot of betting for a single two-minute race.
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Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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That factors in the tight betting line.
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Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Still, betting against the group has often proved painful.
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Yun Li,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
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Investors bet on peace talks restarting soon.
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Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
25 Apr. 2026
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That means a lot of traders are betting that the stock has further to fall.
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Nicole Goodkind,
CNN,
31 July 2023
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Still betting on this legacy, which has been built up so well in the past.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Sign up here and bet just $5 on any game and get the bonuses if your bet wins.
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Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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The [servers are] betting on themselves.
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Peter Burke,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Here are the betting odds for each team, as of Friday night.
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American-Statesman Staff,
Austin American Statesman,
10 Jan. 2026
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Everyone in the group has bet on sports for their entire adult lives.
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Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Soliván is betting that cheaper rent will be worth it.
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Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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