Words similar to wager

Example sentences for: wager

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

‘If I had to wager, I'd bet people would go back to their old patterns eventually.
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.
But I'd wager he's telling Beatty about how the disaffected voters who turned out to elect Ventura might be mobilized in a national campaign.
My Anderson frenzy might make sense if I were, say, a compulsive gambler who'd pawned his fiancee's engagement ring to wager against Kentucky.
cat whipping or whipping the cat a trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength: a wager is laid with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat.