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raffle::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | raffle off |
| Type of | gift, give, present |
We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas.
Examples of raffle
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There also will be course contests, raffle prizes, and silent and oral auctions.
From the stltoday.com
The $25 event will include a donation, a pasta dinner plus a raffle and auction.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Raffle, cake wheel and food will be available for purchase from 11 a.m. to dusk.
From the washingtonpost.com
The event includes a raffle of other items so people don't go away empty-handed.
From the toledoblade.com
All donors will be entered into a raffle to win one of five $100 gas gift cards.
From the dailyherald.com
Enjoy a catered lunch and register for raffle drawings throughout the afternoon.
From the dailyherald.com
Local businesses have donated prizes for the raffle and the highest fundraisers.
From the lohud.com
The weekend's activities include a student art contest and a scholarship raffle.
From the fresnobee.com
The Memorial Day weekend party includes a chili cook-off, barbecue and a raffle.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- Dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"
- (raffles) British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
- A raffle is a competition in which people buy numbered tickets, each ticket having the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn from a container holding a copy of every number (the conainer - and the game itself - sometimes being known as a tombola, from the Italian). ...
- (Raffles (1925 film)) Raffles (1925) is a feature length silent adventure crime/romance motion picture starring House Peters, Miss DuPont, Hedda Hopper, Fred Esmelton and Walter Long.
- (Raffles (1939 film)) Raffles (1939) is a film starring David Niven and Olivia de Havilland. It is one of several film adaptations of an 1899 novel by E. W. Hornung, Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman. ...
- (Raffles (horse)) Raffles was an Arabian stallion foaled in 1926 and imported to the United States by Roger Selby in 1932. Raffles was bred by Lady Wentworth of the Crabbet Arabian Stud.
- (Raffles (Lord Lister)) Raffles and Lord Lister are the names of a popular fictional gentleman thief, who first appeared in a German pulp magazine entitled "Lord Lister, genannt Raffles, der Meisterdieb" published in 1908. ...
- (Raffles (TV series)) Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Phillip Mackie. ...
