How to Use roll the dice in a Sentence

roll the dice

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• Many of these are innocent people who don’t want to roll the dice and go away for decades instead of years, or face an execution.
  — Rene Denfeld, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
• But even on a one-year rental, the Hawks are rolling the dice without giving up much of anything for one of the best defenders in the league.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 19 July 2026
• Will Denver roll the dice with Murdock (or Reid/Turner) on the waiver wire?
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2026
• Until then, global syndicates will happily roll the dice on street-level arrests while the corporate entities handling the cash enable the pipeline.
  — Ari Maas, New York Daily News, 11 July 2026
• Drury rolled the dice by sending his 2028 first-rounder to Vegas in the Dorofeyev trade, then doubled down by shipping his 2030 first to the Vancouver Canucks for Pettersson.
  — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 21 July 2026