Sentence examples for staking you from inspiring English sources

The passions that can define a life usually work their way into the system more subtly than that, staking you out over a period of months or even years, waiting patiently for that pivotal moment when everything clicks and suddenly the world no longer makes sense without an avid mania for Airfix models or interpretive dance or pup play wedged firmly at the forefront of it.

But with so much at stake, you never know.

That depends on what stakes you're playing for.

Had you backed them to split £10 stakes, you would have finished £37.30 in the red.

"If your survival is at stake, you feel you should show no restraint".

With the huge bucks at stake, you had the professional marketers taking over.

With what's at stake, you might see people kicking each other instead".

But it's also true that when a dinner party is at stake, you'll never forget what went wrong.

But, if you've played for high stakes, you get to remain in a high stakes world however much you've lost.

It generally has you laughing right up to the moment it stakes you through the heart, leaving you for dust.

If you're going to raise the stakes, you might as well raise them to the sky.