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Example sentences for "wagered"

Lexicographically close words:
waga; wage; waged; wagen; wager; wagering; wagers; wages; wagged; waggery
  1. When he had no money he wagered his allowance of cigarettes or his share of the daily jam ration.

  2. These scorn to lose their vantage, stung with shame, And life is wagered willingly for fame.

  3. Twice five times circling round the field they fly; For no mean stake or sportive prize they play, Lo, Turnus' life and blood are wagered in the fray.

  4. T was merry when You wagered on your angling.

  5. And wagered with him Pieces of gold 'gainst this which he wore.

  6. Then he wagered money he did not have, and lost that.

  7. Then the two birds wagered their freedom with each other and went to the prince to have their quarrel decided.

  8. I remember that I wagered every dollar I had with me, and some more that Mr. Carpenter kindly lent me, taking my note, and in addition to this a sixteen-dollar silver watch.

  9. The day before Mitsos had asked her what gift of the season he should bring her; six months ago she would not have wagered on her answer; now she had answered him with who knows what quiet and childish memories in her mind?

  10. She would have wagered herself and the brig and Michael that they were all going up to heaven.

  11. Basil wagered almost his whole winnings of that night without a tremor.

  12. This time, getting more cautious, the other players wagered heavily against Basil.

  13. On this arduous frivolity they wagered ten million sesterces and had the actual gold, fifty thousand big, broad, gold pieces, carried into the arena and piled up in a gleaming mound on a monster crimson rug for all to behold.

  14. Didius at once wagered the same sum he had just lost and the bet was made.

  15. He was a Norwegian sailor, who wagered that he could walk from Paris to Moscow in fifteen days.

  16. She wagered me I wouldn't give her away, and of course-- Throughout his stay JOHN hides the emotions he will not show behind a daring irony.

  17. Our marriage was a wager; you wagered you could live with me.

  18. So great was the curiosity that certain lords wagered that the Touranian would desist from his love, and the ladies wagered to the contrary.

  19. Both have wagered that they know who is the lady of my heart; and I have wagered to the contrary.

  20. Horses that are wagered are tied together and put under care of Indian boys.

  21. The Indians, in their apparent desperation, drove up another band of ponies, and in madness wagered them also.

  22. I intend that he shall win, and have wagered accordingly--these tickets are on Alcyfras.

  23. In order to secure privacy for a conference, they decided to go and breakfast in a bastion near the enemy's lines, and wagered with some officers they would stay there an hour.

  24. You have wagered to bring me here to supper, and I supposed you were taking me to sup with one of my own friends.

  25. As soon as my mistress saw me she told me she had been deceived, as she would have wagered that I was the masker who broke Count Verita's bank.

  26. I would have wagered a hundred to one that no one would recognize me there, as the man who got the tickets had assured me that it was a gathering of small tradesmen.

  27. If you had found out about that after your money was wagered on Barville, I presume you would have warned your dear friend Eliot and sacrificed everything!

  28. Rackliff would hear that he had warned Eliot about the signals, and, seeking retaliation, would betray the fact that he had likewise wagered money that Wyndham would win.

  29. Never before in all his life had he felt so much like a contemptible criminal, a dastardly traitor to his team, against which, through the agency of Herbert Rackliff, he had wagered money.

  30. I wagered to win a certain Mademoiselle de Lavedan, who was unknown to me--but not you, not you.

  31. The very woman whom I had wagered to wed had betrayed me into the hands of the very man with whom I laid my wager.

  32. I could have said to her: "The woman whom I wagered to win was not you, Roxalanne, but a certain Mademoiselle de Lavedan.

  33. A government plough was wagered against a settler's looking-glass, a hen and her chickens against a buffalo robe, and many another odd combination.

  34. Another band of Red men followed with some tepees that they offered against government tents and, on being refused, finally wagered them against provender and hay.

  35. The other wagered to the contrary," went on the pleader.

  36. And in doing so, he stammered and blundered so much that Fagan could collect little above the bare facts, that my mother had been wagered at a card-table, and won by my father.

  37. I could have wagered a thousand on it, if I had as much.

  38. Because she had wagered the contrary, she promised Robin a safe-conduct for himself and his men if he would only come to court and display his skill.

  39. It forms part of the great Charlemagne Cycle, of which the last epic is Ricciardetto, by Fortiguerra, a priest who wagered he too could compose a string of adventures like those invented by Ariosto.

  40. The last Italian poet to produce a long epic poem was Fortiguerra, whose "Ricciardetto" has many merits, although we are told the poet wagered to complete it in as many days as it has cantos, and won his bet.

  41. These things De Pean had wagered on the head of Angélique against the wild love of Le Gardeur, the empty admiration of Bigot, and the flatteries of the troop of idle gentlemen who dawdled around her.

  42. Master," said she, suddenly casting her eyes in the street, "there rides past one of the gentlemen who wagered on the battle between Cerberus and the Golden Dog.

  43. Two gentlemen of the Palace passed to-day, and looking up at the tablet, one wagered the other on the battle to-morrow between Cerberus and the Golden Dog.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wagered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.