The phrase "make a stake" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to place a bet or invest money in something. You can use it when talking about gambling, investing in stocks or other assets, or taking a risk in a situation. Example: "I decided to make a stake on the horse race, even though I knew it was a risky bet."
He is especially intelligent on the way in which of narration and belief (both formal religious belief and the particular quality of belief needed to make a stake in an imaginative fictional world) interact with each other.
And just like the gold rush, there's a new crop of pioneers hoping to make a stake and maybe get rich in the burgeoning drone business.
"It is the usual friendly date in November, but obviously, with the call-offs, it gives younger lads who are maybe on the fringes and doing very well at their clubs to make a stake for a place in the squad.
Notwithstanding having amassed over seven million U.S. viewers of episode 3, though less than the ten plus million viewers of the pilot, yet still impressive, Fear The Walking Dead will continue to make a stake.
It's only been open a few months, but San Diego's ACME has already made a stake in the lard-filled world of Southern food.
America as some had chosen, more have remained and made a stake here, because they have, in spite of everything, loved their country and seen reasons to remain here.
But the company's mounting debt pile is making a stake-raising maneuver look more unlikely.
The theatre, Eustis insisted, is "a machine for making community — for making people have a stake in what we have built here".
That raised the prospect that the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, which is also looking for the Higgs boson, could make a discovery and stake a claim before CERN's new $4 billion particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, starts up in 2006.
Then you call and want me to make a corpse with a stake through its heart because you don't like your new sister-in-law, either.
Fed up with being labelled "queen of the Aga saga", she now seems to make a point of staking out new territory with each novel.
