Example sentences for: stakes

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

  • Reduce the stakes, and players will leave the table.

  • As the UAW members at Caterpillar have learned, if the stakes are high enough, Wall Street can be very, very patient.

  • Nixon's presidency limped to its denouement by way of a grim paradox: His lieutenants were soon suspected of conducting illicit operations of such high stakes and complexity that only a senior official would have supervised them.

  • Such self-serving apologies are more transparent when the stakes are higher.

  • In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.


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