How to Use Russian roulette in a Sentence

Russian roulette

noun

• For a super cool entrance, make an arch in the shape of a Russian roulette board.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
• Clearing the enemy from the city, house by house, was a game of Russian roulette played on a grand scale.
  — Elliott Ackerman, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• In 2009, Italian surgeons described the case of a young man whose explosion came about in the course of 'a game of Russian roulette'.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
• The handcuffed child was slain in a Russian roulette-style interrogation over an $8 theft in a crime that shocked the city and the nation.
  — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2022
• More punches ensue, then a vicious game of Russian roulette with an old woman.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• At a time when Facebook is bleeding users and stock value, and inflation is rampant, this seems a strange time to play Russian roulette with the economy.
  — Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• Authorities said at the time that Hexum, 27, was pretending to play Russian roulette with a .44 Magnum revolver when the gun fired a blank cartridge that killed him.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• Unfortunately, he’s set up a sick test to prove his point: a game of Russian roulette, with the option to point the gun at your opponent instead of yourself before pulling the trigger.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2021
• Experts say being an addict these days is like playing Russian roulette, with illicit fentanyl the bullet in the chamber.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The book’s main action, splendidly paced, begins nine years earlier, in 1981, when Milena’s equally élite boyfriend, Misha, kills himself in a game of Russian roulette.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Each event is unlikely: Imagine playing Russian roulette using a gun with a million chambers.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• What comes out the other end is a bit like espresso Russian roulette: While some shots taste fine, others are too bitter or too acidic—and results vary drastically from cup to cup, Hendon explains.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
• School drop-off every morning is like the Squid Game—every day fewer & fewer people & whoever is left gets herded into the cafeteria to play Russian roulette over lunch.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• Inconsistent potency makes doing fentanyl—already up to 50 times stronger than heroine—like playing a game of Russian roulette.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 Aug. 2023
• Inconsistent potency makes doing fentanyl—already up to 50 times stronger than heroine—like playing a game of Russian roulette.
  — Longreads, 11 Aug. 2023
• Gamzu criticized a wedding held the day before in Jerusalem in the Belz Hasidic community in which thousands of people participated, calling it a kind of Russian roulette.
  — Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• Smalligan said skipping a vaccine that is 95 percent effective is like playing Russian roulette.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2021
• The lack of jobs and opportunities elsewhere forces people to continue risking their lives farming vegetables and scrounging for other sources of income at the foot of the volcano, Nunez said, comparing the choice to Russian roulette.
  — Jim Gomez, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2023
• Another brother, Thomas Hennen Carter, killed himself playing Russian roulette.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 May 2023
• Luckily, or perhaps not-so-luckily, a secret Russian roulette ring desperately needs their services.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
• Investigators say Bell shot himself playing Russian roulette.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024