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Example sentences for: stakes

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

Malone believed that all along, which is why he never moved TCI out of the cable business and why, when the company sought to make its subscriber base more manageable, it traded subscribers for minority stakes in other cable companies.
A victory in the June 5 Belmont Stakes would make him the first Triple Crown winner in 20 years.
Such self-serving apologies are more transparent when the stakes are higher.
Also high in the female popularity stakes in 1940s' England were Shirley and Alison : Shirley Temple reigned supreme and Charlotte Bronte's heroine gave intellectual respectability.
A famous joke among academics is that scholarly disputes are especially passionate because the stakes are so low.