Example sentences for: higher-stakes

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

  • Impatient, I jump into a higher-stakes game ($5 and $10 bets, pots more like $100), which turns out to be a horrible idea.

  • But though he amply covers the higher-stakes political events, he never allows them to eclipse his larger story: farmers and teachers, sharecroppers and dentists, prying their freedom loose from the grip of segregationist whites--and in so doing stripping away the racist restrictions that had always made the achievements of American democracy ring hollow.


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