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• If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.From the entry betting
• Some gamblers make wagers all day long.From the entry wagers
• The Spartans were wagers of war.From the entry wagers
• A few years ago, John Paulson wagered hugely against U.S. mortgage bonds and made several billion dollars.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry sell short
• The conservative player will play the exacta box bet and the occasional trifecta box wager.2006, Vincent Conti, Thoroughbred Horse Racing Systems and Methodologies, page 9. From the entry trifecta
• Our wagering gangsomes roamed the course for around twelve years.2014, Dan Jenkins, His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir. From the entry gangsome
• You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months.2008, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W Norton &…. From the entry pari-mutuel
• The track quinella paid $38.00 for a $2 wager, the track exacta paid $70.60 for a $2 wager.2004, Jim Kilby, Jim Fox, Anthony F. Lucas, Casino Operations Management, page 355. From the entry quinella
• It would be wholly misplaced to assess the Yeltsinian wager through the prism of our own Jeffersonian democracy.1992, Helen Purkitt, World politics, 92/93, page 73. From the entry Yeltsinian
• But when you wager on a supercock like this, why, it's just like putting your money on San Miguel."1959, Alejandro Roces, Of Cocks and Kites, and Other Short Stories, Regal Publishing Co, published 1959, page 61. From the entry supercock
• I'll wager if you peep pixels you'll find plenty of artifacts and other image degradation in images from your P & S.2006 March 23, Jeff Varszegi, "You forgot sharpness. :)," Digital Photography Review (www.dpreview.com) (retrieved 23 June 2011). From the entry peep pixels
• I'll wager a Thomas Jefferson that there will be a 5euro coin on the Continent before there is an 18cent coin in fly-over-country.2003 October 19, Kenneth Sloan, “Change for a five”, in rec.games.chess.politics (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Jun 2025. From the entry Thomas Jefferson
• The honest casino operator obtains it either by levying a direct charge or by extracting a favorable P.C. (percentage) on each wager.1978, John Scarne, Scarne's Guide to Casino Gambling, page 321. From the entry pc
• Now, Augur is hosting several wagers where users bet on when a public figure will die, with a pot of digital money going to whoever makes the correct guess.2018 July 25, Daniel Oberhaus, “Assassination Markets for Jeff Bezos, Betty White, and Donald Trump Are On the Blockchain”, in Vice…. From the entry assassination market
• The baying crowd—now unanimously punching the air with many fists, and exchanging rapid wagers and counterwagers—is contained behind the high stone wall that surrounds the ring.2016, Dan Abnett, Guardians of the Galaxy. From the entry counterwager
• Among them was Teleview Racing Patrol, which he built into the leading source of closed-circuit broadcasts of horse racing to off-track betting and intertrack wagering sites in the country.2007 August 13, Edward Wyatt, “Merv Griffin, Television Innovator, Dies at 82”, in New York Times. From the entry intertrack
• And when the midday is past, the plaintiff shall summon the defendant to a wager doom at the proper doomstead after a space of five nights.1935, The Earliest Norwegian Laws, page 376. From the entry doomstead
• A certain sea riever wagered his ship to John Garve MacGillecalum of Raasay that neither he nor any of the race could lift him out of his chair.1911, Celtic Monthly. From the entry riever
• The horse was the grey stallion he aye rode, the very beast he had ridden for many a wager with the wild lads of the Cross Keys.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry broke
• In a trifecta, you must wager on three horses: the one that finishes first (win), the one that finishes second (place), and the one that finishes third (show) in order.2010, Leonard A. Asimow, Mark M. Maxwell, Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text, page 10. From the entry trifecta

Meaning of wager

1. noun A bet; a stake; a pledge.
2. noun The subject of a bet.
3. noun A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.

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Questions about wager in a sentence

How do you use wager in a sentence?

Wager is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I'd wager my boots on it.”

What is a short sentence with wager?

“I'd wager my boots on it.”

What does wager mean?

Wager means a bet; a stake; a pledge.