How to Use put (one's) money on in a Sentence

put (one's) money on

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• There was a plan to figure out how to put money on the table.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2022
• If a sports team was expected to lose, Bruce would put money on them.
  — Elizabeth Leonard, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
• Now who wants to put money on Rock being asked to present the Best Actor award next year?
  — Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
• There are people who have never set foot in a prison, have never written to anyone inside or put money on their books.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Allowing someone to pay by Zelle might be easier than asking them to put money on gift cards.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
• If kids put money on top of this innocent-looking box, a feline thief will poke its head out, pause for a second and then snatch the money away.
  — Rachel Rothman, goodhousekeeping.com, 13 May 2023
• Or go out and put money on Visa gift cards bought at Dollar General or elsewhere.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2022
• Bitcoin put money on the internet while Ethereum made money programmable.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
• While the mystique of Apple is helped by this visual clue to popularity, this doesn’t put money on the bottom line.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• That money has been frozen during the federal government shutdown, and the state cannot put money on the benefit cards until that ends.
  — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
• Social Security isn't going to call to threaten your benefits or tell you to wire money, send cash, or put money on gift cards.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2021
• Boxing fans frequently put money on the underdog, because the faint hope of a big payout is more exciting than the near-certainty of a small payout.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 5 June 2021
• Prince is the one who won’t put money on it, Hill says, because Prince has seen what the 13-0 Bulldogs have been doing all year.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• Another $217 million was lost when consumers put money on gift cards or reloadable prepaid cards as requested during a scam or fraud.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2024
• Arnett said, for example, there are more than 250 ways a bettor can put money on a single NBA game.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
• How Eric’s journey into his personal heart of darkness will conclude is anyone’s guess (right now, a betting man might put money on suicide).
  — Jack King, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
• Unlike polls, which survey voters directly, betting markets reflect the sentiments and behaviors of those willing to put money on an outcome.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• As a result, some election watchers have turned to betting markets for a more accurate reading, arguing that those who put money on the line have a greater incentive to make an accurate call.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
• Online betting analysts recommended that people put money on McNeese to cover the spread if not outright win.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
• To start, pick up an Octopus card at the airport (the 7-Eleven in the arrivals hall sells them), put money on it, and use it the rest of your trip (including your journey from the airport).
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2021
• Rather than functioning as a credit card, the Cash Card generally works as a debit card users can put money on from their bank accounts or via money they’ve been sent or paid through direct deposit.
  — Adario Strange, Quartz, 13 May 2022
• While some deride claims of American exceptionalism, Yardeni—and a number of other veteran investors like him—are willing to put money on it.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024
• No other international body can put money on the table on day zero for financing facilities to order vaccines and mobilize stockpiles.
  — Alice Park, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
• For nearly two years, everyday Americans put money on a crypto platform called Gemini, earning high interest rates for their money at a time when those can be extremely hard to come by.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• And so began another tussle over semantics regarding Kalshi, which lets users put money on the outcome of sports games (and many other events) in all 50 states but is not regulated as gambling.
  — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 15 July 2025
• An unidentified man driving a car registered in Kirkpatrick’s name later arrived at the Albany facility, tried to put money on her account and was rebuffed by jail staff, court documents allege.
  — oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2022
• Prediction markets are not regulated and operate differently from sportsbooks but allow users to put money on future outcomes, similar to traditional betting.
  — Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 10 July 2025
• There was everything out there — people who were going to put money on a convertible note with no prepayment penalties, people looking to charge high interest rates, people who were looking to basically sell your deposits at SVB for a discount.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• In political futures markets, where investors can put money on the political fates of candidates, Biden’s odds of remaining the Democratic party’s nominee slid 29% after the debate.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024