Staking

"Staking" in a Sentence (3 examples)

China is staking its claim to the South China Sea.

The world is staking its future on the months to come.

Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism.

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