Sentence examples for they wager from inspiring English sources

"They wager on football to prove that they're smarter.

Wireless gambling would allow players to free themselves from felt-topped tables and slot machines and multitask while they wager.

And this, they wager, could take months, if not years.An indefinite postponement is less worrying to Ehud Barak than it would have been in his first months as Israel's prime minister, when peace with Syria was his foreign-policy priority.

What is certain is that each new adaptation is a further fulfilment of the great hope of Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, a hope that is shared by all writers of true ambition as they wager their talent against both death's certainty and forgetting: that his book will "make a sensation and echo over the world after I have left it".

They wager what it takes to realize an idea, even if there's risk involved.

Because no royalties come from the gray market, they wager, there is no benefit to used bookstores.

Those who bet wrong lose what they wagered.

They wagered that a national government based on written rules could hold the country together.

Once, they wagered mainly on horses and dogs; in the last decade, betting on political races has also become big business.

Give a few million now, they wagered, get it all back in continued tax breaks and laxer regulations.

Last year they wagered $3.62 billion in the lottery statewide (the largest win was $130 million, split by two people on Nov. 4).