Pronunciation of the English word stake.
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1. | The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. | |
2. | We have a substantial stake in the venture. | |
3. | The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years. | |
4. | Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency food does not arrive there within a few days. | |
5. | There's a lot of money at stake in this transaction. | |
6. | The EC countries have a huge stake in the talks. | |
7. | I felt that my honor was at stake. | |
8. | The team played hard because the championship of the state was at stake. | |
9. | He got angry because his honor was at stake. | |
10. | When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake. |