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• The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.From the entry blind
• With three aces and two jacks, he thought it was safe to up the ante.From the entry up the ante
• When runners cross-train for events, they often up the ante by running on sand.From the entry up the ante
• In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.From the entry ante litteram
• The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet. From the entry ante-
• Like I said, China is game on if India wants to up the ante.2014 September 9, Ankit Panda, “New Delhi Will Recognize 'One China' When Beijing Recognizes 'One India'”, in The Diplomat. From the entry game on
• And with a new vision, the Garden Show has upped the ante for the gardenscapers.2010 April 21, Debra Bell, “Rite of spring: 2010 show brings back spring tradition”, in Bangor Daily News, volume 121, number 264, Bangor…. From the entry gardenscaper
• Soon, skiers at other areas began making their own massive shotskis, so Polich felt the need to keep upping the ante.2019 December 31, R. Scott Rappold, “How to build a shotski — because drinking from one is the easy part”, in The Denver Post, Denver…. From the entry shotski
• If the settlement payment owed me was made on time, I didn't figure to be around for the ante upping.2014, Robert Rogers, La Jolla Shores Murders: A Bishop Bone Mystery, →ISBN. From the entry ante-upping
• If you want to stay alive, then ante up.1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Quint (Robert Shaw). From the entry ante up
• The recent influx of Zooglers — those are Zurich's Google employees to you and me — has helped the city up the style ante.2009, Condé Nast's Traveler, volume 44, page 80. From the entry zoogler
• My own research in China indicates that ex ante logic or modeling is never sufficient in categorizing the diversity emerging in ethnic areas.2002, Chih-yu Shih, “Drawing Out She Characteristics in Lishui, Zhejiang”, in Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to…. From the entry Litong
• Of course, this ex post problem may have a negative feedback on the ex ante desirability of having market transactions for positional goods.1998, Samuel Bowles, Maurizio Franzini, Ugo Pagano, The Politics and Economics of Power, page 61. From the entry positional
• Rational-expectations believers presumably must fall back on unannounced and inappropriate policies (monetary or other) , having declared that announced policies will be discounted ex ante.1994, Philip A. Klein, Beyond Dissent: Essays in Institutional Economics, page 92. From the entry announced
• “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.”2019 October 28, Hannah Sampson, “Inside the creation of travel-worthy haunted houses”, in The Washington Post. From the entry run and gun
• We got off to a good start with RiRi's pink dream of an opening performance, and her two following performances only upped the ante (or should I say Anti?).2016 August 29, Anna Moeslein, “The Best and Worst Moments of the MTV VMAs 2016”, in Glamour. From the entry RiRi
• When the MS index is high ex ante, subsequent large stock market losses and crashes are no longer tail events at all—rather they are perfectly expected events.2013, Mark Spitznagel, The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry tail event
• The poker sandbagger would, upon being dealt a fantastic hand, delay upping the ante in order to lull the other players into a false sense of security.2011, Patricia Hannigan, Golf Girl's Little Tartan Book. From the entry sandbagger
• The group’s founding members, Asheru (Gabriel Benn) and Blue Black (Robert Jackson) joke they might have to ante up money for the art bar’s curse jar.2011 December 30, Lonnae O'Neal Parker, “By night, Asheru. By day, Mr. Benn. A hip-hop artist transforms education.”, in The Washington…. From the entry curse jar
• What could have been a moral victory or arguably a feminist struggle ante litteram remains a farcical squabble between a nagging wife and a ridiculous old man.2007, Patricia Vilches, Gerald E. Seaman, Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli, page 191. From the entry ante litteram
• Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.2007, Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry vanillafied
• On-target production from consistent team Max Martin and Kristian Lundin only ups the ante (note, too, that Backstreeter Brian Littrell gets a co-writing credit on this one).2000 May 20, Billboard, page 28. From the entry Backstreeter

Meaning of ante

1. preposition Synonym of before, earlier in time, particularly used in historical dating.
2. noun A price or cost, as in up the ante.
3. noun In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.

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How do you use ante in a sentence?

Ante is used as a preposition, noun and verb. For example: “The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.”

What is a short sentence with ante?

“If you want to stay alive, then ante up.”

What does ante mean?

Ante means synonym of before, earlier in time, particularly used in historical dating.