lottery

[US]/ˈlɒtəri/
[UK]/ˈlɑːtəri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a game of chance or a form of gambling that involves drawing numbers to win prizes, something difficult to predict or calculate.

Phrases & Collocations

win the lottery

scratch-off lottery ticket

lottery drawing

lottery ticket sales

lottery prize

lottery ticket

welfare lottery

Example Sentences

the lottery of life.

I actually won the lottery!

a losing team; a losing lottery ticket.

They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.

Will you go halves with me if we win the lottery?

The state uses a lottery to assign spaces in the campground.

She wheedled her husband into buying a lottery ticket.

Many people think that the national lottery is nothing more than a licence to print money.

After winning the lottery, she was swimming in money.

He bought lottery tickets from handicapped people.

Since winning the lottery, they’ve been living in clover.

When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.

Real-world Examples

Or is romance not like winning the lottery?

Source: Love, Actually (Video Version)

I can't believe you won the lottery twice in a row.

Source: The Ellen Show

People enter a lottery to come into our country.

Source: Trump's weekly television address

Oh, it's like winning the howling lottery.

Source: CNN 10 Student English February 2022 Collection

Evolutionary success, it appeared, was a lottery.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

I feel like I already won the lottery.

Source: Modern Family - Season 03

Someone telling you that you won the lottery.

Source: Let's Talk IELTS Class

Not everyone wins the genetic lottery like you did.

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 3

If you won a lottery, what would you do?

Source: Fastrack IELTS Speaking High Score Secrets

Probably, you haven't won a lottery, have you?

Source: Fastrack IELTS Speaking High Score Secrets

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