How to Use lotto in a Sentence

lotto

noun
  • Keaton was apt to buy lotto scratchers — or wine — every week for the entire crew.
    — Dan Heching, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
  • May this year bring you blessings, growth, peace, and a winning lotto ticket!
    — Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2022
  • That’s because no one has won the lotto since New Year’s Day.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • All but six states require lotto winners to come forward publicly.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • That's how much one lucky lotto player in Cali won in the Powerball drawing.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 12 June 2017
  • Then, be sure to test your lotto skills with their dedicated lottery section.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • For decades, my mother carried around a stack of my grandparents’ lotto bingo cards.
    — Laura Brown, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026
  • While the clerk was distracted by one of the group, another man reached across the counter a stole a scratch lotto ticket.
    — Law Enforcement, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The state lotto requires a payment from the legislature each year.
    — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 26 June 2017
  • Numerous lotto tickets that were scratched off were found in the rear of another building on the block.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • These two newer contestants in the arena will be very appealing to the scratch-off lotto crowd.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • And since so many lotto tickets are sold each year, that 1% estimate adds up to more than $1 billion.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Durant is almost like a lotto winner who simply needs to drive to 7-11 to claim his prize.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
  • Sheldon clashes with a new scientist in the lab; Mary gets a lotto ticket.
    — Anying Guo, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time a lotto winner has used AI to select winning numbers.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The one highlight is Kudrow, who amuses as an opportunistic lotto girl.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Some others allow lotto winners to remain anonymous, so long as their earnings are above a certain amount.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The ticket holder used the auto lotto feature in buying the winning ticket.
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2019
  • With 40 unique ideas, each date is a surprise waiting to be uncovered, just like scratching off a lotto ticket.
    — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But just like the nation’s dream, the lotto is proving to be an elusive, inequitable, and dying (if not dead) promise of a new future.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The next day, lotto lovers will get a crack at a $640 million Powerball prize, which is the eighth-largest jackpot ever.
    — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Tvonia Thomas said that scratch-off lotto games were consuming every aspect of her life in Virginia.
    — Reena Roy, ABC News, 1 June 2023
  • Some of the money came from her winnings playing the lotto, said her sister Constance Mansfield.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • When did lotto jackpots hit $1 billion or more for Mega Millions and Powerball?
    — Jennifer Sangalang, Treasure Coast Newspapers, 4 Sep. 2025
  • When did lotto jackpots hit $1 billion or more for Mega Millions and Powerball?
    — Jennifer Sangalang, Treasure Coast Newspapers, 3 Sep. 2025
  • When did lotto jackpots hit $1 billion or more for Mega Millions and Powerball?
    — Jennifer Sangalang, Treasure Coast Newspapers, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When did lotto jackpots hit $1 billion or more for Mega Millions and Powerball?
    — Jennifer Sangalang, Treasure Coast Newspapers, 8 Oct. 2025
  • When did lotto jackpots hit $1 billion or more for Mega Millions and Powerball?
    — Jennifer Sangalang, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The Powerball jackpot that started rolling three months ago is now holds a special title – the world’s largest lotto prize ever offered.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Don Barrett, 64, stopped at the Speedway while getting gas and slipped a bill into the lotto machine.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022

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