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"Stake" in a Sentence (24 examples)
We have a substantial stake in the venture.
The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years.
Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency food does not arrive there within a few days.
There's a lot of money at stake in this transaction.
The EC countries have a huge stake in the talks.
I felt that my honor was at stake.
The team played hard because the championship of the state was at stake.
He got angry because his honor was at stake.
When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
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We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.
Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
However, the word "witch" came to be applied almost exclusively to women who [...] were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake.
The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake.
Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
to stake vines or plants
You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it.
“You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?”
I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys.
John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.
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