Wagers
in example sentence
Not only the members of the Reform, but the general public, made heavy
wagers
for or against Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race-horse.
More example sentences with word wagers
The plot needn't detain us - the one about the babe magnet who either
wagers
himself or else his colleagues wager on his behalf that he can seduce (in the early 40s and The Fleet's In, the GI only had to KISS the girl to win the bet) a girl selected at random by a given date has been around since they were writing with papyrus - because it's Style not Content we've come to see and we don't go away frustrated.
But, whatever the difficulties, the quality of public debate stands to benefit enormously from well-structured
wagers.
As a result, both deals seem more like
wagers
than agreements.
It is there that one should look for the factors most likely to drive the biggest
wagers
– for policy and for markets alike.
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