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Example sentences for: wager

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

After some heated discussion we agreed to place a $5 wager on the whole sordid mess, thus adding five more dollars to the $40 million cost.
Inevitably the mayors of Nashville and St. Louis will wager well-known local products on the big game.
P.S.: I never responded to the wager you made with me yesterday.
I'll wager that 1) you don't know the answers; and 2) you don't care.
Others blame Republicans for muting substantive conservative issues such as education reform in a misguided wager that the Lewinsky scandal would bring conservative voters to the polls.