How do you use Jackpot in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pot or kitty, plus the exact meaning.
Jackpot meaning
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- A large cash prize or money.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
Using Jackpot
- The main meaning on this page is: A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won. | A large cash prize or money. | An unexpected windfall or reward.
- Useful related words include: pot, kitty, stake, stakes.
- In the example corpus, jackpot often appears in combinations such as: the jackpot, powerball jackpot, jackpot is.
Context around Jackpot
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jackpot
- In this selection, "jackpot" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, progressive, biggest, winner, win and allows stand out and add context to how "jackpot" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 142 million jackpot in ohio and a progressive jackpot is one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jackpot" sits close to words such as benue, blueprint and builder, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jackpot
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A massive R31 million Lotto jackpot is up for grabs tonight. (11 words)
The jackpot is set at $12,500- the largest jackpot in recent history! (13 words)
An unemployed mother-of-two from Johannesburg won the eye-watering R75 million Powerball jackpot. (15 words)
With these machines, every jackpot earned results in a kakuhen, but in order to earn a payout beyond the first jackpot, the player must hit a certain set of odds within a given amount of spins. (36 words)
That made it the biggest jackpot win in the eyes of the organisers, which increased the maximum jackpot by a further €10m in line with game rules, for the Tahiti record breaker the following Autumn. (35 words)
The springy, shrimp-stuffed “Jackpot stickers” from Jackpot Chicken Rice chef Craig Wong are pan-fried and plopped in a punchy curry sauce, then garnished with Kewpie mayo and ribbons of pickled cabbage. (33 words)
The jackpot is set at $12,500- the largest jackpot in recent history! (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Because there has been no jackpot winner since October, the jackpot, which had been roughly $940 million, increased to more than $1 billion, lottery officials said.
Since no one won Monday’s jackpot, the new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing will climb to $100 million as an annuity, or $51.3 million cash.
That made it the biggest jackpot win in the eyes of the organisers, which increased the maximum jackpot by a further €10m in line with game rules, for the Tahiti record breaker the following Autumn.
The jackpot in that game will be an estimated $78 million, that's for the annuitized jackpot.
The Quick Draw Progressive Jackpot allows players to win part of a rolling jackpot without extra cost.
Following the April 8 drawing, if the jackpot rolls, the new jackpot amount increase will be determined by sales and interest rates.
The jackpot holes were one, six, 13 and 17 but no one managed to clinch the jackpot.
Mega Millions: No Winner Friday, Jackpot Climbs To 'All-Time World Record'The jackpot for Tuesday's drawing is an estimated $1.6 billion.
The jackpot had been rolling over since May 4, when someone won a $142 million jackpot in Ohio.
The jackpot is set at $12,500- the largest jackpot in recent history!
The springy, shrimp-stuffed “Jackpot stickers” from Jackpot Chicken Rice chef Craig Wong are pan-fried and plopped in a punchy curry sauce, then garnished with Kewpie mayo and ribbons of pickled cabbage.
With these machines, every jackpot earned results in a kakuhen, but in order to earn a payout beyond the first jackpot, the player must hit a certain set of odds within a given amount of spins.
A lot of us are dreaming of striking it rich as Mega Millions’ jackpot tops $1.1 billion tonight.
A massive R31 million Lotto jackpot is up for grabs tonight.
A Mega Millions player in Maine won the jackpot of about $1.35 billion on Friday.
America's love with the lottery is - to some extent - fuelled by the media frenzy that can come from a large, growing, jackpot.
A Moss Vale man was proven right when he suspected he was the winner of a Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw, with a $200,000 prize.
An unemployed mother-of-two from Johannesburg won the eye-watering R75 million Powerball jackpot.
A progressive jackpot is one that is often winnable at random, and when it pays out, there’s usually a significant cash prize delivered.
A town on the Essex border has the most millionaires as part of lottery jackpot winners.
Common combinations with jackpot
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the jackpot 45×
- powerball jackpot 23×
- jackpot is 14×
- jackpot in 13×
- million jackpot 13×
- jackpot for 12×
- millions jackpot 12×
- jackpot of 9×
- jackpot was 8×
- jackpot has 8×