Sentence examples for life stakes from inspiring English sources

Ultra-calm Zurich has been Mercer's second-best city for quality of life for years (Calgary comes in a lowly 33rd in the life stakes) but it figures nowhere on the cleanliness list.

It presents the real life stakes of these identities in Don's life as simple problems for Tony to solve.

The choice succeeds in setting the real-life stakes for the thriller that unfolds.

Sitting at my day job wishing I was a kid again so I could be a contestant on a new show on the Cartoon Network is a new high for me in the wasting-my-life stakes.

It can be hard, but adoption is a commitment for life: the stakes are so high for these children.

I had always been hyper-cautious about raising life's stakes, which seemed too high as it was.

In places, the book becomes almost a nostalgic lament for a time when life had stakes and people worked with their hands, knew struggle.

While the message is old, with the integration of Internet technologies into nearly all aspects of life, the stakes are higher than they've ever been.

In real life, the stakes are not so high when it comes to being the best.

"You feel kind of helpless because you have not only your own life at stake but also your children's lives at stake," said Patrina.

With a human life at stake.