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Examples of wager in a Sentence
He has a wager on the game.
I don't think the horse will win. What's your wager?
Recent Examples of wager from the Web
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No Blue Grass winner has been draped with the roses since Strike the Gold in 1992, but this colt certainly belongs in trifecta and superfecta wagers.
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That means a successful $1 wager would yield $4 plus the original stake.
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Make bets and place wagers. $5 Dark Horse Rose, $5 Old Forester Mint Juleps, and $8 Raspberry Margaritas.
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But Amazon’s wager that its customers would quietly submit to higher prices on Prime is a testament to just how popular the company is, and just how loyal its Prime members are.
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Seeing how Lone Sailor has taken to Churchill Downs, Graham advises the use of his mount in all exotic wagers.
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In January, The Wall Street Journal reported that Founders Fund had amassed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin, characterizing it in communications with investors as a high-risk, high-reward wager.
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Before Game 3 of the World Series, a bettor sold a $3,000 futures wager placed on the Astros earlier in the season for $13,600.
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Fast-forward some 35 years to Klingel's first marathon, and there was no wager between the old friends.
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Origin and Etymology of wager
Middle English wageour pledge, bet, from Anglo-French wageure, from *wager
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yearDefinition of wager
: to risk or venture on a final outcome;
specifically
: to lay as a gamble : bet
- wager $5 on a horse
Examples of wager in a Sentence
She wagered $50 on the game.
I wouldn't wager against them.
Recent Examples of wager from the Web
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With the Kentucky Derby approaching, SI Now names the best horses to wager on.
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Two years ago, when the Oaks last experienced good weather, a record 124,589 jammed the track and wagered nearly $49 million.
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Such betting is already legal in Nevada, and New Jersey voters and lawmakers passed a law to legalize sports wagering several years ago.
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The track opens at 7:15 a.m. on Derby Day to allow hardcore racing fans and bettors to wager on the first races from Churchill Downs.
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The Colts are wagering on Mewhort staying on the field this season, re-signing the veteran guard to a one-year contract on Wednesday.
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The Maryland House of Delegates on Thursday approved a bill that calls for placing a referendum on November’s ballot that asks voters to approve or reject a policy to allow sports wagering at the state’s casinos and racetracks.
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The sports leagues would receive a royalty of 0.25 percent of the total amount wagered.
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Ten billion dollars is how much will be wagered on the basketball tournament this year, nearly all of it illegally, according to the American Gaming Association.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wager.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of wager
1602
WAGER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of wager for English Language Learners
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: an agreement in which people try to guess what will happen and the person who guesses wrong has to give something (such as money) to the person who guesses right
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: the money or other valuable thing that you could win or lose in a bet
wager
Definition of wager for English Language Learners
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: to risk losing something (such as money) if your guess about what will happen is wrong
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—used in the phrase I'll wager to indicate what you think will happen or what you believe is probably true
WAGER Defined for Kids
Definition of wager for Students
wagered;
wagering
: to bet on the result of a contest or question
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