STAKE in a Sentence

Learn STAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

73 example sentences for STAKE, such as:

1. His field has been staked off.
2. Our whole lives are at stake in this.
3. They staked the goat in the back yard.
4. This stake must be driven through her.
5. Like a stake on the edge of the marshes.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stake
 n.  money risked on gamble; pole set up to mark something; right or legal share of something
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Like a stake on the edge of the marshes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
2  Giles remained like a stake in the tide of the flowing company.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
3  The hotel where he was known to live when condemned to that region of blackness, was the stake to which he was tied.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
4  "Down with your stake," he said.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
5  "'Won back his watch, won back his money, and went out of the door a rich man,'" added Venn sentence by sentence, as stake after stake passed over to him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
6  For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
7  Our whole lives are at stake in this.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
8  He will hold a card back for years in order to play it at the moment when the stake is best worth winning.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9  You must play your cards as best you can when such a stake is on the table.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
10  A large sum of money is at stake, for the scholarship is a very valuable one, and an unscrupulous man might very well run a risk in order to gain an advantage over his fellows.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
11  Every man's hand is against us, and yet the interests at stake are colossal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
12  Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  With this stake came a heavy hammer, such as in households is used in the coal-cellar for breaking the lumps.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  This stake must be driven through her.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Arthur took the stake and the hammer, and when once his mind was set on action his hands never trembled nor even quivered.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Tickets are on a 'first come, first served' basis, so stake your claim now.
2  I think she'll be head of this company in five year's time - I'd stake my reputation on it.
3  The greater the commitment, the more a fan has at stake.
4  There's more at stake here than you can possibly imagine.
5  Those who want to take child abuse seriously today must stake out a humane child protection practice.
6  The corner of the lot was indicated by a stake.
7  Unless, that is, you believe that when someone makes a public comment on a media website, that is something that is voluntarily done and should not be stricken from the record - except when what is at stake is a matter of life and death.
8  They staked the goat in the back yard.
9  His field has been staked off.
10  Two of the president's chief advisors have staked out opposite positions on this issue.
11  The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.
12  With stakes this high, we have not dared to tamper with the basic concept of motherhood.
13  The arrival of a new chief executive with a tough reputation for cost-cutting further raised the stakes.