Sentence examples for a game stake from inspiring English sources

Most teams have an area of the arena where they drive out after a game, stake this spot!

To use him in relief with a game at stake would be Torre's biggest gamble.

But in the real end-game, both are scrambling to cover every bet in a game of high-stakes political chess.

At times it sounded like a game of high stakes battleships; B3, E2, G3.

"It is a game — and the stakes are very, very high".

League executives, frustrated by what they feel are Kessler's repeated efforts to stall an agreement, called the standoff a game of "high-stakes chicken".

Now two search committees are engaged in what feels like a game of high-stakes tag to find a chief executive.

An undercover agent recorded this telling exchange during a game of medium-stakes poker: [Unintelligible] God, this is getting really bad.

In a game where the stakes matched the electric atmosphere, No. 4 Syracuse made a boisterous claim for a No. 1 ranking and No. 1 seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament with a 95-77 victoverover No. 7 Villanova.

When eight senior monks were caught smoking and boozing over a game of high-stakes poker in a hotel room last year, the leader (pictured) of the Jogye order, South Korea's biggest Buddhist sect, led the 108-bow repentance.

"I liken it to the steroid era in Major League Baseball; it wasn't about right and wrong but about getting an edge in a game where the stakes were huge".