Sentence examples for wager lay from inspiring English sources

I think some worse, of each degree:   Therein a wager lay dare I,   Though some saith that youth ruleth me.

An example is the following passage describing Portia: Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match And on the wager lay two earthly women, And Portia one, there must be something else Pawned with the other, for the poor rude world Hath not her fellow.

I'd love to lay wagers on what major technology company is the second into drone technology on Amazon's scale.

Go to Tradesports (or the officemate you like to argue politics with) and lay a wager against your party.

The adverts were garish and bright (and often ran into another, thus the exhortation to lay a wager with "Bet365.combom").

If I had to lay a wager, I would gamble that this may be Ping's penultimate round of capital before it hits go on a public offering, provided that the equities markets do not shift dramatically.

When Americans express an interest in Bonnie and Clyde now, I wager, their curiosity lies less with the grimy, smelly, murderous Bonnie and Clyde of history than with the glamorous, dashing Bonnie and Clyde portrayed by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty — polite, persecuted mannequins whose only fault could be solved, the film suggests, with a dose of Cialis.

And it would be very poor form indeed for an attendee to lay a friendly wager on how many songs would inspire an audience clap-along.

The Cambodians who gather there are known to bet on anything — they lay money on how much it will rain on a given day — but they didn't wager on the winner of the American Presidential election.

Ladbrokes and bet365 have invariably been willing to lay me a fair-size wager, but they are in the minority.

Paddy Power said it was still "happy to lay" Woods at 7-2, even after accommodating a £10,000 bet and a number of £2,000 wagers at the start of the week.