Synonym: drawing, raffle. Similar words: tottering, battery, jittery, flattery, pitter-patter, blotting, gotten, rotten. Meaning: ['lɑtərɪ /'lɒt-] n. 1. something that is regarded as a chance event 2. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots.
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91. In Britain, many voluntary sector sports clubs are receiving substantial grants from the Sports Lottery Fund to do the same thing.
92. Mutation is almost guaranteed and one individual among billions is certain to draw the successful ticket in the genetic lottery.
93. Does he agree that a national lottery would help considerably?
94. To supply these funds he reestablished the national lottery which afforded the government about one hundred thousand duros a year.
95. If some voters' choices are determined by the lottery of surnames, others are channelled by specific guidance.
96. The people who attend Pentecostal churches tend to be from the same population that plays the lottery.
97. On lottery day, Boston Marathon officials discovered they had hit the jackpot.
98. Selling lottery tickets among your friends is one way; recruiting new members is another.
99. Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.
100. A baby's sex is a genetic lottery. It all depends on the chromosomes the baby receives from its parents.
101. A NEW survey says people fantasise more about winning the Lottery than meeting their dream date.
102. When it got close enough to radio a request for National Lottery cash.
103. The former Treasury mandarin, Lord Burns, was named chairman of the national lottery commission.
104. Stonewall, the gay lobby group, has been given a £ 900,000 lottery grant for a project to combat homophobia.
105. More than 260 women in Koenigstein, near Frankfurt, took part in a lottery with 73 winners receiving gems worth up to £2,000.
105. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
106. For a few months after its introduction, lottery fever swept the nation.
107. The players took the numbers in the score where Toscanini had lost his temper with them and entered them into the lottery.
108. The state lottery, approved by voters 11 years ago, offers lotto and scratch-off tickets as close as the corner market.
109. Compare that with the one-in-14m chance of winning the lottery in Britain.
110. Informal sector activities include such occupations as street-vending of lottery tickets, food, combs, cigarettes and the inevitable chewing gum.
111. The state advertises a great deal to induce its citizens to buy lottery tickets.
112. Everyone's fantasy is that one day they will win the National Lottery.
113. Similarly, if you have just won the lottery, go to an adviser who specialises in high net worth individuals.
114. Besides, the advent of a National Lottery next year could make a nonsense of the strategy's premises about funding.
115. It's highly improbable that someone would win the lottery twice.
116. As the cantor was reciting the Eighteen Benedictions, one fellow was trying to sell a lottery ticket.
117. Roll up! Try your luck at the fairest, squarest state lottery of them all!
118. One television commercial showed a couple at a raucous party, getting friendly as they talk about the lottery.
119. The tabloids ridiculed the house when it landed one of the first big handouts generated by National Lottery revenues.
120. The business, if properly regulated, performs a useful service for lottery winners.
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