Example sentences for: stake

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

  • But the media's one-dimensional understanding of triangulation--that Bush is trying to "distance himself from the GOP's right wing" and "stake out the middle ground" between two extremes--oversimplifies the game.

  • Give managers a stake in their companies, the thinking went, and they'll perform better.

  • Kendal became a frontier castle, and pele towers — square defensive structures, from the word pel, meaning stake — were attached to the larger houses in the Lakes were to provide additional protection.

  • Phil Gramm insisted that the Kosovo war "should not have been fought [because] the President [had] never made a convincing case for putting the lives of Americans at risk in a war where we have no vital national interest at stake."

  • The judiciary , run by respected judges, should be able to remain independent, except when it is handling highly sensitive, politicized cases in which Beijing's central authority is at stake.


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