With this knowledge they run no risk of staking their money on the wrong cards.
He was staking the maximum each time on either red or black.
This little Englishman wants to shoot a match with me, staking that fine mare of his against a hundred pounds British; against me, Hernando Pereira, who have won every prize at shooting that ever I entered for.
Refusing, they knew, as the Triplanetarians knew and as all modern readers know, meant that they were staking their lives upon victory.
Although there are no mathematics by which to evaluate the probability of such an occurrence, it is upon that larger chance that some of us are staking a portion of our wealth.
Then there are those three miners who are up ahead: they wouldn't hesitate to put two mere girls out of their way, if we interfered with their staking our mine or jumping our claims," said Polly.
Chechakos were pouring in by the thousands and staking clear to the mountain tops.
You can't tell what you're staking under ten foot of snow anyhow.
In truth, he was less interested in staking a fortune than in beating Shorty.
There was to be no staking by proxy while the real racer was off and away down the creek.
Sometimes, consulting his note-book or engaging in long calculations, an hour elapsed without his staking a chip.
She lost none of this incident in which Barnave was staking his head.
Her eyes were pitiful in their strained eagerness, striving with all her shocked troubled soul to read the faces of the two men, and staking all her hopes of safety in her trust.
Can't see where that hombre gets off when it comes to staking his own family to a living.
Of course if there is good staking you can picket him out; but quite likely he is unused to the picket rope, or the feed is scant.
Patriotism, standing by the honour of your country when your country is staking itself on a principle, seems to me a materialization of this force, the steel through which it can act.
Recently staking machines are being used in the larger establishments, the work being done much more quickly and efficiently.
Then after caging to remove the sawdust or sand, the skins are passed over the staking knife, or are treated in a machine suited for the purpose, to stretch them and to render them thoroughly soft and flexible.
Tell us, O Vidura, who they are and with whom we shall have to play, staking hundreds upon hundreds of our possessions.
This, however, I regard as a highly improper act--this act of staking Draupadi.
But O king, could our enemies have said so unto me, it thou hadst not played staking this princess?
O son of Pritha, it is the staking at dice, which may be lost or won that may injure us.
How was I going to confess to him that I was staking my reputation as an anthropologist upon a letter or two and a personal interview with a young girl--a waitress at the Hotel Gardenia in Heliatrope City?
In this thing we are staking a lot on her interest and enthusiasm--pretty nearly everything.
I think of him staking all his savings to make it a success--Oh, I know that's personal, just for me.
And now he is stakingall he has left--his intelligence, his strength, his courage, on this.
Every success scored by the 'Will of the People' is a step in the direction of that for which men like yourself are staking their lives, Pasha.
The main gunwales were similarly made and worked to the predetermined sheer which, in staking out, was hogged to a greater degree than was required in the finished canoe.
However, some builders made the gunwales hogged bystaking them out when green, and then set them above the building frame with vertical posts.
If the sheer was to be hogged, this was done by treating the main gunwales with boiling water before assembly and then staking them out to dry in the required sheer curves.
We spent one night in calculations beside the glowing stove while the shingles crackled above us under the bitter cold, and found that by staking everything we could just manage it.
And the risk of staking his all is one that man will always wish to run.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gambling; play; playing; speculation; sporting
