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Example sentences for: ante

How can you use “ante” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In fact, they've upped the ante.
One True Thing , the story of a woman who comes home to take care of her dying mother and winds up accused of euthanasia, echoes that lesson but ups the ante: If you're passive enough to let your parents dump their problems on you, they can darn near destroy your life.
But rule bending by individuals is probably penny ante stuff compared with the advantage taken by states and their agencies, upon whom FEMA's tiny audit staff must rely to verify all but the largest grants.
If she does not take the hint, then you and Prudie will dope out a way to up the ante.
The tall, skinny Norton bobs and slits his eyes and twists his mouth into a yokel sneer and is wholly impossible to dislike, even when his character keeps crazily upping the ante.