Crossword-Solution: SWEEPSTAKES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sweepstakes | n. | A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake. |
| Sweepstakes | sing. / pl. | The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. |
| Sweepstakes | sing. / pl. | A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SWEEPSTAKES | anagram | SWEEPSTEAKS |
We have 13 clues for the answer “SWEEPSTAKES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "No purchase necessary" contest | 1 answer |
| Certain horserace | 1 answer |
| Dick Clark does ads for one | 1 answer |
| One way to make a million | 1 answer |
| Promotional lotteries | 1 answer |
| Publishers Clearing House event | 1 answer |
| Win all the prizes? | 1 answer |
| Winner-take-all contest | 1 answer |
| a race or contest in which the entire prize may be awarded to the winner | 1 answer |
| Kind of contest | 7 answers |
| CLEARING, OF SORTS | 10 answers |
| lottery | 10 answers |
| Clearing. | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SWEEPSTAKES (5)
There's very few races, and the big sweepstakes keep horses out of the game.” “Do you get a fair share of the riding?” I asked.
Meanwhile the "Any Age Sweepstakes" handicap from Chicago to New York was on, a race of nine hundred miles.
Coventry says they are eighty-nine men-of- war, but one fifth-rate; and that the Sweepstakes, which carries forty guns.
What! never heard Of Richard Cricket!--never heard of him! Why, he's the jockey of Newmarket; you May win a cup by him, or else a sweepstakes.
Besides this, he had been educated to think it was a fine thing to visit fine people; and Lady Diana Sweepstakes (for that was the name of his mother’s acquaintance) was a very fine lady, and her two sons intended to be very great gentlemen.
Quotes with SWEEPSTAKES (3)
We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we turn up on Sundays in our best clothes and on our best behavior and with our best feet forward, but loved as we alone know ourselves to be, the weakest and shabbiest of what we are along with the strongest and gladdest. To come together as people who believe that just maybe this gospel is actually true should be to come together like people who have just won the Irish Sweepstakes…
It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle!
You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1995–2011).