We have quilts on band--we cannot sell them, and we need means to supply our treasury, which we can obtain by raffling for the benefit of the poor.
In reply to a question as to whether raffling and games of chance are justifiable when the purposes to be accomplished are good, this was said: "We say emphatically, No.
With all these objections, should it not be clear to anyone that raffling horses, quilts, bicycles and other property is not sanctioned by the moral law nor approved by the general Church authorities?
The chief amusement, however, has been the raffling of gold rings.
It is like your Irish politeness, raffling for tea-kettles.
At the Bazaars, Raffling for Prizes, Flirtation, &c.
He held me in talk so long, till at last he drew me out of the raffling place to the shop-door, and then to a walk in the cloister, still talking of a thousand things cursorily without anything to the purpose.
I had never made any walks that way, nor was the common part of the fair of much advantage to me; but I took a turn this year into the cloisters, and among the rest I fell into one of the raffling shops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raffling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
