How to Use gamble away in a Sentence
gamble away
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Lee is alleged to have gambled away a lot of the money.
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Kevin Grasha,
The Enquirer,
26 Aug. 2025
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His dad worked factory jobs to make ends meet but drank and gambled away most of his paycheck.
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Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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Everett gambled away his severance.
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Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
18 June 2026
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Gambling addiction, which impacts a little over 1% of the population, has led some to gamble away unemployment checks and even lose their homes.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Boomers are a frequent Groyper target, lambasted as avatars of a bumbling, aging affluence that gambled away social stability for cultural decline.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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But in 1945, things got even more interesting when then owner, Hank Frey, gambled away the place in a dice game with local rancher Gene Wade.
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Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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Over eight episodes, the brothers find themselves at the mercy of Mancuso — a former family friend — and his vicious henchmen, and they are forced to confront the emotional scars of growing up with an alcoholic father, who had gambled away his own restaurant.
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Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Sep. 2025
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The confusion stemmed from the bank being given both a floppy disk of information and a paper request form – but by the time authorities realized their error, the man had already gambled away most of the funds, according to NHK.
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Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
9 Aug. 2025
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On the day before the Eagles’ Super Bowl parade in February, Isaiah Rodgers packed his locker at the team facility after invigorating a career that had almost been gambled away.
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Zach Berman,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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