stakes

IPA: stˈeɪks

Examples of "stakes" in Sentences

In 1994 the billing was shortened to the Strub Stakes.
Stakes are driven into the ground at the corners of the pitch.
But she will also outline what they call the stakes here in this election.
She also won the Beldame Stakes, the Comely Stakes and the Vagrancy Handicap.
Tommy Hill running back in eighth place Brookes took the lead, by four points, in the title stakes from the Suzuki rider.
Roger Federer takes his 64th career title, drawing level with Pete Sampras in the title stakes after winning in Stockholm.
"It feels good and is something I didn't expect," admitted Camier who goes into these two races second in the title stakes, seven points down on Worx Suzuki rider Sylvain Guintoli.
The ASSU device, raising the stakes, is reported to have a microphone, built in speakers, and a webcam that, via its wireless connection, will allow users to use Skype and similar software.
Gambling without stakes is an insipid amusement, and Corliss discovered, likewise, that the warm blood which rises from hygienic gymnasium work is something quite different from that which pounds hotly along when thew matches thew and flesh impacts on flesh and the stake is life and limb.