Sentence examples for she's staked from inspiring English sources
If she doesn't seem to grasp this, it's because she seems to think that her deep, rapturous feeling for the country on which she's staked a claim is enough to inoculate her.
She's staked her entire career on it.
Luckily, before she can make them shoot, she's staked... by Alaric, who seems to have woken up on the right side of the bed.
"Oh my gosh," Campbell sighed in late October from her home in Nashville, where she's staked out a full-time livelihood since 2006.
And she is staking both resources in the fight for, as she puts it, "a better way to live".
Here, Ms. Solomon feels she is staking a claim to a new apartment and a new life.
The point is that she feels passionate in a world marked by annihilating brutality: she is staking her claim to life amid so much death.
At this point even those chroniclers who had been dead against Matilda while she was staking her claim to be a "female king" were prepared to cut her some slack.
Martin's, $24.95), Janet Evanovich's New Jersey bounty hunter totals a new car, attracts a homicidal maniac and botches a surveillance job so badly that the gangster she was staking out tries to hire her as his chauffeur.
Their view is that when we get ninety-per-cent unemployment, or when we get two-hundred-and-thirty-one-million-per-cent inflation and have to resort to visiting a black-market money dealer while she's being staked out by the secret police — that's when we should start to get concerned.
