How to Use gambit in a Sentence

gambit

noun

• This choice was a bit of a gambit.
  — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• But by that point, the gambit had worked.
  — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
• This gambit that was done last night is a joke.
  — NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
• The gambit paid off with the King and his court.
  — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• But even some Democrats think that this gambit is played out.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
• The gambit paid off in the fifth inning.
  — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 11 June 2026
• But there is good reason to think that this time, his gambits may fail.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• Olympia’s first gambit involves the week’s big case.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
• The gambit worked — to a degree.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
• Of course, the gambit could backfire.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
• Putin bet his legacy on the gambit in Ukraine.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
• The damage from this gambit would be hard to reverse.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• The gambit worked, and Russell’s friend got tapped.
  — Alexandra Starr, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
• The structural gambit was a little hit and miss.
  — New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2026
• Their gambit did not work; the moms were tear-gassed like everybody else.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
• Finn and Rose fail at their gambit, and nearly lose their lives in the process.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The next week or so will go a long way to determining if the gambit pays off.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The lawyers tried that gambit again on Thursday with Chutkan.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• But what if all these works were more than just conceptual gambits?
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
• Each of the songs in In the Heights takes off along its own visual gambit.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 May 2021
• For a moment, the movie’s inciting gambit seems to rear its head again.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2022
• The gambit lasted a far shorter time than that summer’s heat.
  — Airea D. Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2023
• After a couple of months with it, does the gambit feel fresh, stale, or a little of both?
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2022
• The gambit failed, as the jury returned three death verdicts.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• Fischbach has some thoughts as to why his gambit paid off, but first, learn a bit about him and the movie itself.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
• Alessio is a sharp critic of both the misuse of reserves and the term-limit gambit.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
• But as the embers of war glow in the region, this gambit becomes less and less tenable.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• The problem with this type of refusal is that a cat-and-mouse gambit is likely to ensue.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
• The gambit to chase Netflix with a service called Max didn’t work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025