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Example sentences for "gamblers"

Lexicographically close words:
gambir; gambit; gamble; gambled; gambler; gambles; gambling; gamboge; gambol; gamboled
  1. After their honeymoon Sammy started a hotel at a sea-side resort, where the better class of guns, gamblers and vaudeville artists spent their vacation.

  2. Th' old sport's interesting when he ain't tryin' to beat th' gamblers at their own game.

  3. Look out those gamblers in there don't skin you.

  4. The careless way in which Joe Cooper had shown his money to arouse the avarice of the gamblers had awakened quick interest in others outside the fraternity, and other heads were planning other ways of getting possession of it.

  5. Of course it is well known that there is more absurd superstition to be found amongst gamblers than almost anywhere else.

  6. The most experienced and hardened gamblers were indignant at the Chevalier's unexampled behaviour.

  7. I am a warning to others, just as thieves and drunkards and gamblers are," she said in a low voice.

  8. New stakes were laid on the stone, and the gamblers proceeded as before.

  9. The gamblers at the cards were silent, in strange contrast with the others; and in each group was at least one dark- garbed, hard-eyed gambler who was not a miner.

  10. From the talk sometimes Joan learned that he played for exceedingly large stakes with gamblers and prosperous miners, usually with the same result--a loss.

  11. The gamblers were intent upon their game.

  12. These miners were strangers to one another; the groups were strangers; the gamblers were strangers; the newcomers were strangers; and over all hung an atmosphere of distrust.

  13. One of the gamblers howled his disgust, slammed down his cards, and got up.

  14. Then there's the wimmen an' gamblers an' such thet hang on.

  15. During the fortnight's run from Acapulco to San Francisco I several times saw the gamblers talking earnestly with Backus, and once I threw out a gentle warning to him.

  16. There were three professional gamblers on board--rough, repulsive fellows.

  17. As I moved away, I saw one of the gamblers approach and accost him; then another of them; then the third.

  18. One of the three gamblers was Backus's 'pal.

  19. The gamblers observed it, and showed their gratification by hardly perceptible signs.

  20. The gamblers and capitalists interested in gambling establishments charged Langdon with political ingratitude.

  21. The gamblers appealed to Ruef, but Ruef was helpless.

  22. He cited the operations of bunko swindlers, gamblers and bandits and declared that the city was "wide open.

  23. The gamblers and handbook agents resumed their business, women were attacked on the streets, bootleg liquor flowed like a river and pickpockets victimized a dozen men and women.

  24. Of course there are successful gamblers in the world, but there are not many of them.

  25. Great gamblers do not drink, and great drinkers are not good players, though they are sometimes amazingly lucky when in their cups.

  26. The labor of the convicts, the taxes on rum, and the banks of the gamblers must put it up," he writes.

  27. After the grand jury had been in session two days, the dance-house keepers, gamblers and demi-monde fled out of the city in dismay, to escape the indictment of women grand jurors!

  28. He turned as he spoke and indicated the little knot of gamblers around the ticker.

  29. They thought the gamblers had you, Bill," he added, turning to the lineman.

  30. Word was then passed to the gamblers and saloon-keepers to line up on the river front.

  31. The gamblers were, in fact, mustering for a charge on the invaders.

  32. Among the railroad men the feeling against the gamblers was constantly growing in bitterness.

  33. A brief consultation was held, and the attitude of the gamblers carefully discussed.

  34. Within, the gamblers tried to shoot him from the windows, but he stood close and his friends kept up a constant supporting fire that drove the defenders back.

  35. The slugging gamblers turned in astonishment on the new fighting man, but they were not long left in doubt as to which cause he espoused.

  36. About noon they overtook the trading outfit and after some threatening forced the tricky teamster to rig the two gamblers out in their own apparel.

  37. The man looked at the lineman and his companion in surprise: "The gamblers are driving the vigilantes, Bill.

  38. They spent the day whipping the gamblers and their hangers-on into line, upon the prediction that if they themselves were dispersed scant quarter would be shown their disorderly associates.

  39. They are all inveterate gamblers in that country, and lose or win with equal indifference.

  40. Before we started, Duncan told me about getting into a scrape over a game of cards at Leadville, and that he had shot two gamblers and was keeping out of the way until the excitement over the affair had died out.

  41. Did you ever say that if it came to a row between the gamblers of this town and the lumber-jacks that you'd fight with the lumber-jacks?

  42. He speaks in mighty wrath against the sins of the camps and the evil-doers of the towns--naming the thieves and gamblers by name and violently characterizing their ways: until it seems he must in the end be done to death in revenge.

  43. Naturally the lumber-towns are crowded with parasites upon their lusts and prodigality--with gamblers and saloon-keepers and purveyors of low passion.

  44. Alison, in his "History of Europe," calls attention to the fact that "a similar instance of heroic virtue in death occurred in a female martyr in the early Christian church.

  45. The poor of the neighborhood who accompany my bier shall receive every year on the anniversary of my death a large package of tobacco.

  46. He seized the notes, and without counting, stuffed them into his coat-pocket, and plunged in an instant again among the gamblers who crowded the table.

  47. The Kick-up is of a serious character; the gamblers who lately occupied the front of the table are upset in the confusion, and others are endeavouring to get out of the way of the danger.

  48. It may be the work of gamblers who have bet against the Giants and want to worry you so that you won't pitch your best ball.

  49. In addition to the strain of the games in which he was slated to pitch, Joe had to contend with the foul tactics of a gang of gamblers who had wagered heavily on the Sox and did all they could to put Joe out of action.

  50. It's the scheme of some gamblers who have bet on the Yanks to win.

  51. Frenzied gamblers of the Stock Exchange have no more use for the dead cocks than have Mexicans for the real birds when they get the fatal gaff.

  52. With a mighty rush the gamblers leaped for the different poles.

  53. Switching stock-gamblers into eternity had grown to be a pastime to Barry Conant.

  54. Bob Brownley paused and looked down into the faces of the breathless gamblers with a contempt that was superb.

  55. Again the gamblers closed in and for another five minutes the opening scene was duplicated, with only a shade less fierceness.

  56. At a given signal, when the rooms are fullest, some of us—two would be enough—drive the gamblers into a corner and make them hold up their hands.

  57. The few day gamblers tumbled out of Lebrun's across the street to watch the fun.

  58. And at the tables waited an equal number of the professional gamblers of the house.

  59. Following the Surprise Canyon strike, Panamint City was quickly built and quickly filled with thugs who lived by their guns; gamblers and painted girls who lived by their wits.

  60. Since the slot machine is a three billion dollar business in the nation, the gamblers opposed him as part of a general plan to secure repeal of the law and reinstate the one-arm bandits.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gamblers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.