How to Use roulette in a Sentence

roulette

noun
  • And that’s a hell of a chip to lay on the roulette table.
    al.com, 9 July 2019
  • Spin the wheel in a game of roulette and get a shot chosen for you.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Orioles have had a roulette in the final spot of their bullpen of late.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2023
  • In a few hours, they will be led, one at a time, to a room called the roulette chamber.
    Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Uhura was the first to be taken to the roulette chamber.
    Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Heavy drug use had turned her drive to work into a roulette wheel of death.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022
  • There’s even a roulette lounge at the Helsinki Airport.
    Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
  • What about the long run of black numbers that came up on a Monte Carlo roulette wheel in 1913?
    Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Then Klum spun the roulette wheel, landing on a number that no one had picked: 13.
    Brian Compere, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The sites also featured roulette and the Chinese dice game sic bo.
    Alice Su, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • One dress depicted the queen of spades holding a piece of fruit at a roulette wheel.
    Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The queen of a crooked roulette wheel tries to leave her San Francisco boss for a miner.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The other side is betting on black, the roulette table, the Trump scandal.
    Fox News, 6 June 2018
  • The wheel of history is just a roulette wheel that keeps coming up black.
    David Viramontes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Pat McAfee told a story about Peyton and an all-time roulette spin.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The exception seems to be roulette games, with only 10 variants on the site.
    Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The roulette wheel continues to spin on where Bucks games will air this season.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But the former Portuguese colony is more than just roulettes and slot machines.
    Wufei Yu, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • But guessing clothing sizes is a roulette game, said Leighton.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Buy a sampler pack and pick a tea bag out willy-nilly for a fun morning roulette.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 26 Feb. 2022
  • And the digits in there were produced with a digital roulette wheel.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Swimmers here, the film informs us, are playing roulette with some of the biggest jaws on the planet.
    Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • Dolan is more into gambling than Williams — not at the roulette wheel, but on the building itself.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Play a fun game of vegetable roulette with your friends before dinner!
    Birmingham Magazine, al, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Stadium roulette has happened in Oakland for at least a decade, and that’s a shame.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • Finish the meal with a ristretto martini and spin around the roulette table.
    Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 21 July 2022
  • Wasn’t uncommon to see five thousand dollars on the roulette wheel at one time.
    Anne T. Lawrence, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • But that, of course, could have led to another round of luxury-tax roulette.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 June 2019
  • But then one of the bosses suggests credit card roulette to determine who pays the bill — let the waitress pick one from the bunch.
    Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Rotation roulette in the NBA is a far more dicey proposition.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2020

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