Get to know Bet better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like wager or gamble.
Bet in a sentence
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Bet meaning
- A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
- A candidate (for elections and pageants) or competitor (in multinational sports).
- Indicating a degree of certainty, or that something can be relied upon.
Synonyms of Bet
Using Bet
- The main meaning on this page is: A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | A candidate (for elections and pageants) or competitor (in multinational sports). | Indicating a degree of certainty, or that something can be relied upon.
- Useful related words include: wager, gamble, play, promise.
- In the example corpus, bet often appears in combinations such as: bet on, the bet, bet is.
Context around Bet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 35.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 16 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bet
- In this selection, "bet" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 35.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, line, total, free, payout, wins and credits stand out and add context to how "bet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the bet, the total bet payout on, line bet, first bet and odds bet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bet" sits close to words such as menu, shops and attached, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If, instead, the seven is rolled before the come-bet point, the come bet (and any odds bet) loses. (19 words)
Come bet A Come bet can be visualized as starting an entirely new pass line bet, unique to that player. (20 words)
Pass Line The fundamental bet in craps is the pass line bet, which is a bet for the shooter to win. (21 words)
If a player chooses to remove the initial don't come and/or don't pass line bet, he or she can no longer lay odds behind the bet and cannot re-bet the same don't pass and/or don't come number (players must make a new don't pass or come bets if desired). (57 words)
Whirl or World: A five-unit bet that is a combination of a horn and any-seven bet, with the idea that if a seven is rolled the bet is a push, because the money won on the seven is lost on the horn portions of the bet. (48 words)
Because the shooter must have a line bet the shooter generally may not reduce a don't pass bet below the table minimum, although casinos will allow the shooter to move the bet to the pass line in lieu of taking it down. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
Don't Come bet In the same way that a come bet is similar to a pass line bet, a don't come bet is similar to a don't pass bet.
The legal distinction between a "Call Bet" and an "Announced Bet" is that a "Call Bet" is a bet called by the player without him placing any money on the table to cover the cost of the bet.
If the come-bet point is rolled on the come-out roll, the odds do not win but the come bet does and the odds bet is returned (along with the come bet and its payoff).
The player would receive 7:1 minus half the total bet payout on half the total bet for craps and 15:1 minus half the total bet payout on half the total bet for 11 (yo).
Whirl or World: A five-unit bet that is a combination of a horn and any-seven bet, with the idea that if a seven is rolled the bet is a push, because the money won on the seven is lost on the horn portions of the bet.
As with above, that means if you bet on the Super Bowl and your bet wins, you win, and if it loses, you get your wager back into your account in bet credits for future use.
Bet Builder at Betway allows you to create your very own and unique soccer bet by combining up to 10 outcomes such as Match Result, First Goalscorer, Both Teams to Score and more from one match into a single bet.
Tennis bettors can also benefit from Betway’s Free Bet Club, where you can earn a £10 free bet from wagering £25 or more on accumulators or bet builders comprising three legs or more.
These allow you to place a bet without risking your own money, but only the winnings from the free bet—not the stake—are returned if the bet is successful.
Students will often bet too little in an attempt to provoke their opponents to fold, but Palamourdas tries to emphasize to the students that they should bet a larger percentage of the money in the pot than they instinctively want to bet.
A "two-way" bet is one that is part for the player and part for the dealers (for example, tossing two chips and stating "Two Way Hard Eight" will place a bet for the player and the same bet for the dealer).
Because the shooter must have a line bet the shooter generally may not reduce a don't pass bet below the table minimum, although casinos will allow the shooter to move the bet to the pass line in lieu of taking it down.
Come bet A Come bet can be visualized as starting an entirely new pass line bet, unique to that player.
If a player chooses to remove the initial don't come and/or don't pass line bet, he or she can no longer lay odds behind the bet and cannot re-bet the same don't pass and/or don't come number (players must make a new don't pass or come bets if desired).
If a player wins the bet he can take down all four bets instead of a single bet even though only one bet can win per roll.
If, instead, the seven is rolled before the come-bet point, the come bet (and any odds bet) loses.
If the player wants the original dealer bet to remain in place, the phrase "I control the bet" should be clearly stated by the tipper, and acknowledged by one of the crew, immediately upon announcing the dealer bet.
Just like the buy bet lay bets pay true odds, but because the lay bet is the opposite of the buy bet, the payout is reversed.
Other types of betting One can also bet with another person that a statement is true or false, or that a specified event will happen (a "back bet") or will not happen (a "lay bet") within a specified time.
Pass Line The fundamental bet in craps is the pass line bet, which is a bet for the shooter to win.
Phrases with bet
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with bet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bet on 49×
- the bet 40×
- bet is 29×
- to bet 23×
- line bet 17×
- come bet 16×
- bet and 12×
- bet to 11×
- place bet 10×
- bet the 10×