Example sentences for: stake

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

  • But while he's thinking it over, Osmin goes into a paroxysm of bloodthirst, demanding that the four be first decapitated, then hanged, then impaled, then burnt at the stake, then tied up and drowned, and then flogged:

  • At stake was the class structure of the South with its landed gentry commanding a servile class of laborers.

  • In The Stakeholder Society , the pair present a novel plan to fight income inequality: Give all Americans a "capital stake" of $80,000 when they reach adulthood to spend as they wish.

  • So why have consultants, who are asked to help companies in which they have no financial stake, survived?

  • But because they have no direct financial stake in their government, many of the state's voters are relatively indifferent to its pursuits.


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