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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:

The loan shows how high the stakes are, not just for UPS, and for the Teamsters, but also for the entire labor movement.
Even the Alaskan native population, many of whose members still subsist by hunting and fishing, is divided according to the traditional interests and financial stakes in the potential revenues.
The image of the stake comes from the stakes used to hold up the tabernacle in Old Testament days; today it corresponds roughly to a diocese, and is a collection of words.
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.
The stakes are scarcely lower today, with foes such as Saddam Hussein continuing to menace the international order."