How to Use ante in a Sentence

ante

1 of 2 noun

• Over the next 15-plus minutes, Cleveland upped the ante.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2022
• Cruise lines have been upping the ante on ways to delight you.
  — Sue Bryant, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
• Adele's recent street style looks have been upping the ante.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2022
• Take a classic black blazer and up the ante with sequins.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2022
• Browse through these accessory trends and find the next best way to up the ante this season.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2022
• But to up the ante, try and visit for one of its After Midnite showings.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2021
• Now, tasked with upping the ante, the SOS team had to solve even more technical challenges.
  — Shane Snow, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Instead of betting on the games with normal odds, up the ante by cashing in on the best boosts and bonuses this week.
  — cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• Since the last event in 2019, organizers listened to fan input and upped the ante.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
• Brunson only upped the ante with a pair of matching sheer opera gloves and brown strappy heels.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
• The newest season upped the ante with rock classics, hip-hop anthems, and go-to party tracks used to set the right vibe.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 Jan. 2022
• Chanel has upped the ante on the popular all-black watch genre by putting a trompe l’oeil spin on the category.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022
• But Knowles also upped Day’s ante in terms of what the expectations are this year.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2022
• That language reflects the extent to which the Left has upped the rhetorical ante in recent years.
  — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
• The barely-there dress would have been eye-catching on its own, but Ora upped the ante with a full-throttle makeup look.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
• This routine also goes heavy on the single-leg work—another way to up the ante.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF, 30 Dec. 2021
• Switch out the bathing suit with a tank top and jeans for a casual brunch, or up the ante with a pair of heels and some statement jewelry.
  — Lydia Mansel, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022
• For candidates who want to meet the higher ante for the second debate, the key to getting on stage could be this: Do well in the first one.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• If elections were always difficult to pull off, 2020 upped the ante.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• Caesars has upped the ante by backing a bettor’s first wager with up to $1,100 in site credit.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2022
• Phoenix grabbed five more rebounds than New York overall and on offense in the first half, then upped the ante to nine and seven more than the Knicks in the second.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2022
• Leave it to Jennifer Lopez to up the sartorial ante at her own movie premiere.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 June 2022
• Playing with shades of black, Barber set out to up the ante on definition.
  — Twiggy Jalloh, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2022
• With every Liam Neeson action film, the ante is exactly the same.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• Gabrielle Union is upping the ante in her latest party night outfit.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2022
• There are concerns that the North could up the ante in the coming weeks by conducting its first nuclear test since 2017.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• And now, The Beatrice is hoping to up the ante again by bringing both that service and those decadent bites all under one roof.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2022
• As to the filling, up the ante with a splash of Calvados, bourbon or some crème de cassis, a black currant liqueur that brings out the flavor of the grapes.
  — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022
• In the new paper, the researchers upped the ante to include one space dimension and three time dimensions, or 1+3.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
• After last year’s successful debut of the pipeline program, the Disney team aimed to up the ante with year two.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022

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ante

2 of 2 verb

• Did everyone at the table ante?
• Everyone anted up a dollar.
• Of course, Thuney would likely have to switch to the right side, and the Browns will have to ante up.
  — cleveland, 3 Mar. 2020
• Which is what led the commission to ante up for the new routes.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al.com, 9 June 2019
• The Ravens need to be prepared to ante up to keep him and this unit intact.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2023
• If your style is elegance, ante up the extra bucks for the 5000.
  — Steve Smith, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020
• And the school has no shortage of donors who would ante up to buy out Harbaugh and chart a new course.
  — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2020
• The coyote tournament is open to one- to four-man teams who ante up $1,000.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
• Teams should ante up and benefit if the move is right and pay the price if the move is wrong, and that's what will happen.
  — Grant Wahl and Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• That said, Aranda would have his pick of jobs if LSU hadn’t anted up.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Some models also gave a peek of gold grillz to ante up the edge of their beauty looks.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 10 Sep. 2019
• There was a time, for sure, when the municipality was the last one to ante up to the table, so to speak.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2022
• These oxfords boast a textured leather upper to ante up your dressy style by a mile and maybe some more.
  — Men's Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• But the banks don’t just ante up that kind of money without a big safety cushion.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2022
• Supporters remain hopeful the state will ante up in some fashion to help foot the bill for both projects.
  — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
• All applicants had been required to ante up a $5,000 fee just to apply.
  — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 29 June 2017
• Any city that really wants Amazon will have to ante up, and most will find the wherewithal to do so.
  — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• The Giants don’t appear to be anteing up, and if Juan Marichal can be a Dodger, couldn’t anybody?
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The plan then is to double down on speed with the offense, while attempting to ante up with toughness on defense.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 5 May 2018
• On Tuesday, the Yankees anted up, scoring five times over the first three innings.
  — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 10 May 2016
• But from the looks of some new photos, Scarlett Johansson is upping the ink ante with a rather large new tattoo.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 23 Aug. 2017
• The chance to play for the Stanley Cup can very much be earned at the trade deadline, at least if the club’s GM is adept at exactly the right pieces and is willing to ante up for them.
  — Matt Kalman, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• If the unions don't ante up voluntarily, then the unions should be sued for the appropriate amount.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
• The other participants have got to ante up and this is their neighborhood.
  — Fox News, 3 Apr. 2018
• The Mets, on the other hand, will have to ante up for Alonso, who hit 40 homers last year but will be eligible for free agency this fall.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• The grandmother may not have a legal leg to stand on with the daughter, but surely the granddaughter received the benefit of the loan and should ante up.
  — Syndicated Columns, OregonLive.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The Golden State Warriors, winners of three of the past four championships, also have anted-up, and remain stacked.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
• The new teaser antes up the 1980s sci-fi horror, giving us a solid new look at Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) return.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 13 Oct. 2017
• Don’t get carried away in the heat of the moment or ante up major money when everyone else is playing for matchsticks.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 20 May 2021
• The federal dollars are mostly 80-20 matches with local funds, and the Dallas mayor is determined to find a way for the city to ante up its share.
  — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024