Sentence examples for a wager of from inspiring English sources

The next year he cut the travel to eight days, 10 hours, then accepted a wager of $1,000 to do it in less than six days.

In the euro crisis, she has put a wager of 72 billion euros of German taxpayers' money on the bet that the Greek state and economy will recover.

He had started at the Charterhouse Wall in Goswell Road, crossed the road, turned right and then ran the length of Old Street for a wager of 15 guineas to five (£1,380 to £460 in 2004 values).

Because of the healthy impulses of Mitt Romney, then the governor of Massachusetts, who turned down a wager of cheese steaks for lobster on the outcome of the 2005 Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots, Mr. Rendell was forced to do something he would never do outside the shower.

The tradition began when railroad engineers put down a wager of $800 in 1917; by 2000, the sum at stake had grown to $335,000, attracting punters from all over Alaska and assuring round-the-clock vigilance of the river from Nenana citizens.

Here are two: "They had placed, man and boy, a wager of $10 on the game, which Karl even at that time had understood to be nothing for the man and everything for himself, a concrete iteration of the stakes in the ongoing matchups the man had a genius for drawing him into and he a genius for losing — a daily dose of death that he resisted justifying as practice for the final one awaiting him.

The two made a wager out of the situation, with the loser having to take a dip in the pool himself.

And, in both cases, the clothes themselves seemed to justify a bit of a wager on those two men making the final.

At Monday's news conference, Fury, 25, and Chisora also agreed to a wager on the outcome of their contest.

God and Lucifer exist, but they've made a wager for the souls of mankind.

That's a wager most of his current Republican rivals can afford.