Use stakes in a sentence
Sentences ending with stakes
- Such a clever rascal must play for higher stakes. [9]
- Small country "investors" lost their stakes. [4]
- Alabama leaves the hall, followed by her sister stakes. [9]
- Before I had gone twenty paces I heard them laughing at their game and shouting out the stakes. [9]
More example sentences with the word stakes in them
- The battle itself was fought with stakes blunted at the tops. [10]
- The time go ver' fast, and my breath catch in my throat to see how great the stakes they play for. [11]
- He turned rather to put the stakes back into his wagon. [9]
- The spot for the shanty is cleared of underbrush; forked stakes are driven into the ground, cross-pieces are laid on them, and poles sloping back to the ground. [4]
- The stakes of the Britons' stockades are still standing in the bed of the Thames. [6]
- When a man starts out upon an undertaking of the gravest importance, wherein he stakes his reputation, an undertaking for which he is ridiculed and reviled, he likes to have his judgment justified. [9]
- He was in spirit the born adventurer, the gamester who could play for life's largest stakes, lose all, draw a long breath--and begin the world again. [11]
- He had begun playing for the stakes from one stand- point, and he would not turn back. [11]
- This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. [7]
- There'll be high jinks, there'll be welcome, there'll be room; For to-morrow we are pulling stakes for Shendy. [11]
- All at once I hear him say, 'Double the stakes, your Excellency! [11]
- I will bet him twenty to one, and let any New York publisher hold the stakes, that the statements I have above made as to the authorship of the article in question are entirely true. [5]
- But since we have played so long, do you think I'll give you the stakes now--before the end? [11]
- In their last fight my best cock had severely handled handsome Nikander's, and yet he wanted to dispute the stakes with me, but I would assert my rights! [10]
- The lower stakes cracked more and more and at last the wall fell, and with it the men who had been pushing it. [2]
- Exulting in some brief triumph, or cast down by a defeat, there he sat so wild and restless, so feverishly and intensely anxious, so terribly eager, so ravenous for the paltry stakes, that she could have almost better borne to see him dead. [12]
- There couldn't have been a better place for that long reign; you could stand on the porch and see those two wide-apart stakes almost with your eyes shut. [5]
- So was Marcus Antonius; and though he lost his game, he played for big stakes, and it wasn't his dandyism that spoiled his chance. [6]
- The only woman among them was Ledscha, who crouched, unfettered, on the ground behind the enclosure, which consisted of short stakes fastened by a rope. [10]
- Nor was it above half an hour before the stakes were raised and the tide began to turn in the doctor's favour. [9]
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