(n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
Example Sentences:
(1) He should buy a Tatts Lotto ticket.” The manager of opposition business, Tony Burke , said the case against Robert was “cut and dried”.
(2) Complaints were raised about a front-page Daily Star editorial, published on 28 September and headlined "Lotto tonic for Britain", and a Daily Express front page on the same day headlined "New lottery to make Britain better".
(3) and the Sun seethed: "Top Cannes film is most pro-IRA ever (and, yes, it did get a Lotto grant)."
(4) "We are now having trouble organising some fast production to let everyone have this shirt that will become a memory of a historic achievement," Lotto President Andrea Tomat told Reuters in an interview.
(5) Stage one While Team Sky and Ewan’s Orica controlled most of the 185km run from Beverley, the bulk of it into a brutally cold headwind, it was Lotto who took over arguably at the point when the win could have slipped away, after Steve Cummings played yet another astute tactical card by escaping on the final wind-assisted run-in.
(6) On the other hand, the Dutchmen in the Lotto NL-Jumbo team are acquiring something of an affinity for Yorkshire in spring, or what passes for it, over a British bank holiday weekend.
(7) I’ve seen miniature cars, townhouses, churches, motorcycle helmets and ballgowns used to thank the saints (and Brazil has many popular saints) for interventions such as good exam results, lotto wins or cancer cures.
(8) Stage two It was an opportunistic move and he never enjoyed more than 100 metres lead but it might have worked if Lotto had not kept tabs on him and he was swept up only as the peloton went under the Settle-Carlisle railway and into the town with a kilometre to go.
(9) Apparently this isn’t unique to my social circle – a 2013 Gallup poll found 68% of people would keep working after winning lotto.
(10) I’ve often debated the merits of continuing to work after winning the lotto with friends and family – I maintain that I wouldn’t but I always find myself in the minority.