How to Use gambit in a Sentence

gambit

noun

• I couldn't tell whether her earlier poor-mouthing had been sincere or just a gambit to get me to pick up the dinner check.
• Kyiv saw through this gambit, and the peace talks flopped.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• The other side of the coin also has a stake in this gambit.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• The gambit worked, and the song hit Number 15 on Adult Pop Airplay.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• The lawyers tried that gambit again on Thursday with Chutkan.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• The gambit for the tour is that the sibling trio will play five of their albums each night.
  — Chris Willman, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
• Nathaniel Hackett’s gambit took the Broncos to a new low.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• The van On the night of Sept. 9, Cavalcante pulled off one of his boldest gambits.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The gambit fails to please them, thanks to the long shadow of Japanese colonial rule.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Was the salad-tossing always the gambit for the second sketch?
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• In any case, Iger has judged Chapek’s gambit a failure.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The apex of the language gambit seems to be those amazing polyglots that know a dozen or dozens of languages.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• But as the embers of war glow in the region, this gambit becomes less and less tenable.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• For many of them, Putin’s gambit has unwound 30 years of progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  — Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
• The gambit angered Bolivians and gave Morales a last-minute boost.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
• The gambit lasted a far shorter time than that summer’s heat.
  — Airea D. Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2023
• Without Kokuho Rose, the farm’s special strain of medium-grain rice, his sushi gambit might have failed.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• But forecasting oil prices for the rest of the year remains a difficult gambit.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 18 July 2022
• In the case of Morant’s lollygagging against the Hornets, the gambit served next to no strategic purpose, given the size of the Grizzlies’ lead.
  — Robert O'Connell, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
• The production in Harman Hall has the arresting bona fides for such a gambit.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• The gambit was so successful that the firm actually ran out of stock.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Metals Company’s audacious gambit may have opened the door to deep-sea mining for the first time.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• But in Ohio, at least, was the picture of a gambit rewarded as the best-selling author won a Senate seat.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• An ongoing cat-and-mouse gambit takes place in these matters.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• But at the time, some Republicans had suggested that the gambit would fail.
  — Amy Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• But in such an either-or gambit, only one path is correct.
  — Siobhan Roberts Chloë Ellingson, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Will Ferrari’s gambit to hire two alpha drivers pay off or end in tears?
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
• That is conjecture, a gambit that has no place in medicine or any other science.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• If so, the gambit is a powerful one, because few countries have the moral standing to tell Congo off.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 31 July 2022
• Over the past six months, Guatemalans have made an audacious gambit to take their government back.
  — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024