Examples of wager in a Sentence
Noun
He has a wager on the game.
I don't think the horse will win. What's your wager?
Verb
She wagered $50 on the game.
I wouldn't wager against them.
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Grace Hase, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
No arrests were made, but the agents seized cash, records detailing wagers, and ledgers and diaries with betting information.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
An offshoot of the gambling universe, prediction markets allow people to wager on a vast array of upcoming and possible future events.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Placing wagers on election outcomes precedes modern-day statistical polling — the first of which was done by Elmer Gallup in the 1936 presidential election — according to Koleman Strumpf, an economics professor at Wake Forest University who studies prediction markets.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
No arrests were made, but the agents seized cash, records detailing wagers, and ledgers and diaries with betting information.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Verb
The difference is that in prediction markets, people are wagering actual money, which tends to sharpen the mind in ways that answering a pollster's call during dinner does not.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
An offshoot of the gambling universe, prediction markets allow people to wager on a vast array of upcoming and possible future events.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
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“Wager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wager. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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