How to Use lotto in a Sentence

lotto

noun

• That's how much one lucky lotto player in Cali won in the Powerball drawing.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 12 June 2017
• The lotto winner matched all six numbers in the game, which hasn't crowned a jackpot winner since Oct. 14.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2023
• While the clerk was distracted by one of the group, another man reached across the counter a stole a scratch lotto ticket.
  — Law Enforcement, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2017
• The next day, lotto lovers will get a crack at a $640 million Powerball prize, which is the eighth-largest jackpot ever.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
• No one won the Powerball jackpot on Wednesday, which means Saturday will be a new day for the hopes and dreams of many who play the lotto.
  — Joe Harrington, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2021
• May this year bring you blessings, growth, peace, and a winning lotto ticket!
  — Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2022
• Durant is almost like a lotto winner who simply needs to drive to 7-11 to claim his prize.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• Don Barrett, 64, stopped at the Speedway while getting gas and slipped a bill into the lotto machine.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022
• While eye-popping, the $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot would rank as only the third-largest prize of all U.S. lotto games.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Numerous lotto tickets that were scratched off were found in the rear of another building on the block.
  — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Hagler said a ticket for the new lotto game will cost $2, while the cost for a Natural State Jackpot ticket is $1.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2022
• Sheldon clashes with a new scientist in the lab; Mary gets a lotto ticket.
  — Anying Guo, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• These two newer contestants in the arena will be very appealing to the scratch-off lotto crowd.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• But just like the nation’s dream, the lotto is proving to be an elusive, inequitable, and dying (if not dead) promise of a new future.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• The state lotto requires a payment from the legislature each year.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 26 June 2017
• Tell us where the gunmen, lotto scammers and criminals are.
  — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 23 Jan. 2018
• Woman wins $48 million playing lotto:An 18-year-old bought a lottery ticket for the first time.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
• Some of the money came from her winnings playing the lotto, said her sister Constance Mansfield.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Lottery bouquet Stumped on what to get your brand-new bae? Can't go wrong with a handmade lotto ticket bouquet.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 4 Jan. 2018
• With 40 unique ideas, each date is a surprise waiting to be uncovered, just like scratching off a lotto ticket.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
• The Powerball jackpot that started rolling three months ago is now holds a special title – the world’s largest lotto prize ever offered.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 5 Nov. 2022
• On a recent Tuesday, the site didn’t look like very much, with beer cans and lotto scratch tickets lying by cement barriers blocking off the walk down to the rocky shore.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2021
• See here: The Powerball lottery jackpot is expected to grow to $1.9 billion ahead of tonight’s drawing, the largest lotto prize ever.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
• The ticket holder used the auto lotto feature in buying the winning ticket.
  — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2019
• In places like the Bronx – and ‘hoods all over – playing the lotto is a kind of pastime, almost a standard routine on Saturday afternoons.
  — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2018
• All but six states require lotto winners to come forward publicly.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
• An oil change at Walmart Forseth was changing oil on her car and scratched the winning ticket outside the store, state lotto officials said in a news release.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Tvonia Thomas said that scratch-off lotto games were consuming every aspect of her life in Virginia.
  — Reena Roy, ABC News, 1 June 2023
• The Brisbane man, who chose to remain anonymous, matched all six numbers in the August 17 Gold lotto drawing using the numbers his father picked decades ago.
  — David Williams, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• Andrew Legut, 34, is a Grosse Ile resident who contributed to the lotto club after being irritated with the lack of progress on the bridge.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024