How to Use slot machine in a Sentence

slot machine

noun
  • These teams can make the scoreboard look like a slot machine.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Could the flash of a slot machine be the light at the end of the tunnel?
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Las Vegas is more than just slot machines and neon lights.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
  • There are no slot machines in the ballpark and no sports betting area.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • Videos on social media showed video slot machines that had gone dark.
    — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The cafe has five video slot machines and also offers beer and wine and food.
    — Bob Bong, Daily Southtown, 8 May 2018
  • Enough shots pinged off posts to form the soundtrack of a casino slot machine.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • The slot machines have helped offset slow days at the restaurant.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Even the carnival lights of the slot machines have been known to pull me in a time or two.
    — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • Call him a Las Vegas slot machine.
    — Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Johnson also said there will be a bar and slot machines for of-age customers.
    — Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The net win is the amount of money that gamblers lose at slot machines and table games.
    — Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Gay or straight, everybody loves slot machines.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
  • But the former Portuguese colony is more than just roulettes and slot machines.
    — Wufei Yu, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Per Kozar, the slot machines will be part of this weekend’s auction.
    — Nina Metz, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The player sat at a Dragon Link slot machine, bet and hit spin.
    — Helena Wegner, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The change won’t be opening the floodgates for just anyone to release a slot machine app.
    — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Any kind of scrolling is a lot like playing a slot machine before bed, Dimitriu said.
    — Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Think about a person playing a slot machine for hours, says Melnikoff.
    — Natalie Wu, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
  • That was literally copied from slot machines.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • One gambler bet less than a dollar on a Las Vegas slot machine and won a big prize.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2025
  • It can be inserted into a slot machine or enable a person to get chips for a table game.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In one of the games, the process even resembles a slot machine, according James.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The Kings lit up the scoreboard like a slot machine, and at no point did the Pelicans dig in.
    — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The Rebels got a nice pop of publicity last week for putting a large slot machine on the sideline for home games.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
  • This has a slot machine-style effect on gamblers, who keep feeding their apps money, transfixed by each new bet.
    — David French, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Much like a slot machine at a casino, the lucky 7s flashed briefly, appearing as if this would be the time the jackpot hits.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 14 June 2025
  • Then the next day, another visitor hit a slot machine jackpot.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • By midyear, the resort will have more than 3,400 slot machines on the property.
    — Mark Glover, sacbee, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The lawsuit asks the court to force the state to apply the same tax rate to skill games or to bar it from collecting taxes on slot machines.
    — Marc Levy, Fortune, 30 July 2024

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