| 单词 | stake |
| 例句 | Not only did he miss the opportunity to disown the offensive characterization of Burr; he raised the rhetorical stakes with his dismissive tone and gratuitously defiant counterthreat. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “What about them fillin’ up the holes and throwin’ the stakes, just to make us lay out the whole site all over again. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a formidable player; few dared play with him for his stakes were so high and reckless. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But the only thing that happens is that the knife catches and I smash my knuckles into the stake, bloodying them. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Some of them had staked their rifles bayonet first into the ground and rigged tent cloth across to shade them from the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone, it seems, has a stake in the outcome. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Africans want a just share in the whole of South Africa; they want security and a stake in society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting up on his hind legs, the beast howled and threw the stake aside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the dead of winter, nothing is growing, but stakes with seed packets affixed to them stick out of the ground, labeling herbs and vegetables. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Even in this place of fear and darkness, the Lord of Light protects us,” Ser Godry Farring told the men who gathered to watch as the stakes were hammered down into the holes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In each stake boat, an official sat ready to hold the stern of the shell assigned to that lane until the starting pistol was fired. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He intended to do this all night long, if necessary, to make sure the stakes weren’t tampered with. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The world was too small, and both my safety and my livelihood were at stake. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Save your breath, kid. I know the stakes. I’m trying to find where the PFC is headquartered in the city. I just needed a rest.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel any kind of personal stake in it at all, so I didn’t understand the “You” part. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I was tempted to drop it, but I screamed and wrenched the stake. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z An emaciated bay horse is tethered to a stake beside him, out of its head with terror. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z What was at stake in nature was the survival of an entire species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “They didn’t break none of the stakes,” he said gruffly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a few days earlier, across the country, there was another tragic example of the stakes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He said, “Honey, I’m not sure I can turn myself in to these people. There are principles at stake, basic human rights.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I think most people would have pressed the button the moment they realized the stakes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was attached to a stake in the ground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “You wouldn’t happen to be the same crackerjack lawman who fell asleep in his car while the vandal trashed our survey stakes, would you?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The stake was in his hands, the stake sharpened at both ends, the stake that vibrated so wildly, that grew long, short, light, heavy, light again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The stakes were huge: Whoever won ten games first would capture the lion’s share of the prize money and secure the “championship.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His feet grew numb when he thought of one of those bear’s paws landing squarely on the top of his head, driving him perhaps like a stake through the unpredictable flooring of the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the rotting-plank road, wooden stakes were driven deep into the boggy ground; there the corpses festered, red and dripping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A score of builders set to clearing brush, digging latrines, and untying their bundles of fire-hardened stakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dad got ticked off and said that if I wasn’t going to team up with him, the least I could do was stake him some pool-shooting money. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I mean, the guy made a point of getting my name so he’d know exactly who to burn at the stake! Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Reverend Wright's feelings were hurt, Barack said, but he also seemed to understand the stakes, leading us to believe that he'd be supportive without dwelling on his disappointment. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She did not trust monks and she did not trust giants, and the last time she’d seen a giant monk, her friend Theresa had been taken away to be burned at the stake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The breaks about Ethel might not be as good as he thought at first, but a thousand bucks was a stake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To make weight in anything but high-class stakes races, jockeys had to keep their weight to no more than 114 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps his pride was at stake—yet the cost of the repairs to the house was bound to be enormous! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Well, you ain’t never had nothing to play with,” he said, excusing me, “but you start when you get a slave, and if you hit, you got a stake for something. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In late August they tried him in a good stakes race in Detroit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to make sure they understood the stakes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But there are others, too, who have no one they love at stake, or who no longer care, who slip among the crowd, taking bets on the two kids whose names will be drawn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z If not for the alertness in his ocean-blue eyes, he would resemble, more than anything, a scarecrow that had come down from its stake. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant white stakes that marked the perimeters of buildings imparted to the land the look of a Civil War burial ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Those men were scary, but something valuable was at stake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When the cash ran out, he’d work on them until they had staked practically everything they owned, right down to their horse blankets. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And what was at stake for both men that was worth risking so much? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On February 21, 1994, more than a hundred agents and other personnel quietly staked out the neighborhood around his house. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Their absence placed the stakes of the discussions into relief; ultimately, it was for the young ones that they schemed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A widely touted theory assigned authorship to Scandinavian emigres, who later picked up stakes, moved to Mexico, and became the Toltecs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was attached to a stake in the ground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There's a small hole missing where the beet stake should go. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “The only thing I can think of is because I gave her the recorder. She thought I had a stake in it and would play along.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Red Pollard had just won his fourth stakes race in eleven long years in the saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But the fate of the quest was at stake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After we pulled up stakes in San Francisco, we headed for the Mojave Desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A giraffe passed between us—its long neck bobbing gracefully even in panic—and when it was gone I saw that she’d picked up an iron stake. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They staked out the horses close to the fire, where Taisin sat huddled in the blanket. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It took several strokes to regain the place she had lost, and when she got there, the other side had nearly won, for Kate’s ball was the last but one and lay near the stake. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z What stakes would I use to shape a mouth in gold? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The stake was knocked out of my hand, into the pond. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Jesse Owens story had already galvanized much of the nation, driving home what exactly was at stake in these Olympic Games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As Twilight told it, Deydey had walked in humbly, played poorly at first, causing the trader to raise the stakes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He leads her to her usual spot and chains her foot to a stake. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He took napping so seriously that he eventually staked out a secret nest on the track roof, tucked in behind a chimney. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Shucks, I couldn’t remember for sure if you killed a vampire by driving a stake in its heart or by shooting it with a silver bullet! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “There’s too much that you don’t understand. When there’s a lot more at stake than a championship, then, yes—it is just a game.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Weeds had been kept down in this field, and the plants had been trained up stakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even if I did, I’ve got too much at stake here to consider it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was not yet good enough to shoot for the East’s great races, so Smith entered him in the Scarsdale Handicap, a midlevel stakes race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In prison, unlike in the outside world, power and authority were at stake in nearly every transaction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned the bowl upon the stake and struck again, then again, then again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z This dramatic change in policy gave state and local police an enormous stake in the War on Drugs—not in its success, but in its perpetual existence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He is ready, eager, to stake life on the cruel quick test of the precipice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Given the lack of previous investigation, it may have been inevitable that when Dobyns traced births and deaths in Lima he would be staking out new ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But it was bound in a crisscross of wires attached to white metal stakes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So he staked high and unsparingly, hating himself, mocking himself. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But I had no choice, with my parents, my friends, and all of New York City at stake. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But under all our talk floated a latent sense of violence; the whites had drawn a line over which we dared not step and we accepted that line because our bread was at stake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They threw the net over Constance, fixing it into the ground with long stakes and bludgeoning her senseless before she was properly awake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z With that, he understood what was at stake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The four victims were chained up back-to-back, two to a stake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow Rekh is sending me to the workshop of Zau the Master, to fetch a stake. He did not say I must go alone. Do you want to go with me?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z At stake, after all, is the world’s greatest forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It looks like mostly rope tied into wooden stakes driven into the rock at either end, with tight wooden planks running all the way to the other side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Soon the beach Cullen was patrolling would be crowded with vacationers staking their claims on the sand with colorful towels and umbrellas. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Something had changed, and I suspected it had to do with swinging that stake. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Songololo kept pulling on it and screaming, yanking her leash taut, which made it impossible to turn the stake so it would pass through. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A half circle is waiting for me like a mob that’s ready to burn me at the stake. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was as if there were an unspoken agreement on the mountain to pretend that these desiccated remains weren’t real—as if none of us dared to acknowledge what was at stake here. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But now the stakes were much higher—the Candidates results would determine who played for the World Championship—and Fischer wasn’t going to let an obnoxious eye jinx keep him from his destiny. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But we are not sure, and the stakes are high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He screams a loud, shrill cry, that pierces my heart like a stake, and I imagine that this, maybe, is how Pa died. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunch, he walked outside the squadron headquarters and pounded a huge iron stake in the ground with a sledge hammer he kept in the trunk of his Jaguar XKE. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It rested beside a plot growing tomatoes tied to wooden stakes with pieces of nylon hose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She returns to her mother, who has staked out a position in line, only about thirty from the front—folding chair and all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But there was more at stake than it seemed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There are other ways of raising the stakes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Negotiations between black leaders and white authorities had hardened into a tense stalemate, with the whole Southern way of life at stake. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z How it would be solved, he didn’t know, but he knew this: The stakes were higher than anyone else realized. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "The honor of our House was at stake. I had no choice but to ride. No man sheds Lannister blood with impunity." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Morgan and I stake out opposite ends of the table, communicating only in glares. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z "I will have every opening in the ringwall ditched and staked before dark," the Old Bear had commanded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It is only after she is behind her rope with one foot chained to a stake that the menagerie is opened to the public. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “No. I have nothing at stake,” she says, making that noise, putting her hands to her mouth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She plods along by my side to the edge of Marlena’s dressing tent and then waits patiently as Grady and Bill untie the bottom of the sidewall from the stakes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Field in jest, as Ajarry’s stake was scarcely three yards square. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “That’s the only reason? You didn’t have some sort of personal stake in this case?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer was besieged with calls and cables, and photographers and journalists staked out the grounds in hopes of just a glimpse of him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “But something’s smoldering down there. The marker stakes I planted are gone, but I think that’s the direction we saw the blue fire last night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She lifts the stake as though it weighs nothing and splits his head in a single clean movement—ponk—like cracking a hardboiled egg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Besides I had promised them a ride home in the Rolls Royce, and I never cheat when the stakes are high. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Who needs the insight of a child where matters of life and death are at stake? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Whoever’s in charge doesn’t know why she dared to tell the truth a few minutes ago, but they’re reminding her whose lives are at stake. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z This was lined with sharpened stakes by a solitary beaver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The mental outlook of all future generations of Africans was at stake. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A hand gripped on to the stakes of the wagon bed. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Curly bent down and scooped up an armful of dug-up survey stakes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So much seemed to be at stake because, in truth, it was. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Nor would it be historically correct to regard the issues at stake as exclusively or even primarily constitutional. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At the sight of Stannis, two of the men bound to the stakes began to plead for mercy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She saw a kitchen garden below, planted in neat squares marked off in red brick; a profusion of herbs staked out territory directly below her window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The remaining men found Rosie lying on her side, quivering, her foot still chained to a stake. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Behind Jack walked the twins, carrying a great stake on their shoulders. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She couldn’t trust anybody—not when the future of library science was at stake. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “You are to take the stake to the goldhouse?” he asked. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I wanted to grab every last thing I loved and stake it ruthlessly to the ground. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The stakes were small compared with the grand scale expedition Mark Antony had hoped to wage against Parthia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z So Sammy staked me, about twenty dollars, I think it was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His team would spend several days with the men in the village, inside the fence made of enormous bamboo stakes or barbed wire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The bottom of the stake widened into a mini shovel. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z No houses had been built, but the lots were marked with surveying stakes, and the grass was freshly mown. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z This was the gold rush for geeks, a special time in history, the Internet moment, and he was primed to take advantage of that, to stake his claim. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had both hands on the stake and was still fiddling with it when I realized another danger: At any second electricity would start surging through the fence. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He slumps over the ropes propping him up, and his torso slides down the stake, and every now and then Volkheimer comes out of the shadows, looming fantastically huge, and the prisoner straightens again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Velia and Pita were pulling leaves and sprigs off the branches that were still to be made into stakes before piling them neatly next to the whittiers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Inside the gate the man went along the fence, studying some plants tied up to stakes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The reputation of the school was at stake, he told us, and he was very, very, very confident that we would not let Camillo Junior High down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Not while the cards are hot. Stay and play a bit. Kaz will stake you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They watched Max place a circle of yellow crime scene tape near my trunk, using metal stakes. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z All around its perimeter, eight-man sledge teams pound in stakes at breakneck speed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A line of gray stake boats stretched across the river, marking the starting line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Not made freaks: not men covered head to toe in tattoos, not women who regurgitate wallets and lightbulbs on command, not moss-haired girls or men who pound stakes into their sinus cavities. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Upon a stake in the middle was set a great goblin head; upon its shattered helm the white badge could still be seen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Are you all really so desperate that you’d stake everything on him? Why, he’s just a boy—a soft- bellied normal who knows next to nothing of our world!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A little before 4:00 p.m., in a driving rain, Tom Bolles’s freshmen paddled upriver to the stake boats and took their starting position, with Columbia on one side and California on the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A goat was tied to a stake on the rivers bank. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A party of mounted horsemen rode forward to chal-lenge them as they approached the stakes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I scrambled over the white split rail fence and carefully picked my way past the sharpened stakes of the interior fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z How did I stake my claim on the natural world? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Because of the crowd we’re only able to stake out one lawn chair. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When he had almost buried the stake, he pulled it from the ground with his massive hands, and repeated the ritual until he felt he had punished his body enough. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I unclenched my jaw and cleared my mind, forcing myself not to think about where I was, who I was playing against, or what was at stake. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was only when the other scythes in attendance shook his hand and wished him luck in his mortal competition against Citra that he sobered and remembered what was at stake. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As one senator put it: “Our national honor is at stake. We cannot and we will not shrink from defending it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Suggs pressed his face so close to hers that she could count the blackheads on his nose and said, “The crowd will be even bigger when it’s you squirming on a stake.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I own as I do not, although I stake a claim on a pretty decent fashion sense, on account of my longstanding friendship with a certain party by the name of Joe Bunch. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Aureliano wrote the name on a piece of paper that he pasted to the base of the small anvil: stake. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z To one side, where I had cut down the last three rows of corn, Dad had marked off a long rectangle with twine wrapped around stakes in the ground. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Often, photographers or reporters staked out the front of the house, attempting to get Bobby’s photograph or interview him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then again Ged stood still a while; for a man never speaks his own name aloud, until more than his life’s safety is at stake. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The spiked branch barely brushed over the long spinal quills quivering along his arched back, and in my haste I let go of the stake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The most volatile current debate among American school administrators, teachers, parents, and students concerns “high- stakes” testing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And Thomas Jefferson’s lyrical rendering of the reasons for the entire revolutionary enterprise emphasized the self-evident character of the principles at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We staked out a wallow deep in the woods, and then a clearing of ferns, but saw no signs of pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z No reason was given for the expedition, though chances are she was staking it out for a future field trip. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But taking my bearing from the stake, I decided to go out into the water, hoping to find the raft A few feet offshore, I got another bad scare. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z George said, “Guys like us got no fambly. They make a little stake an’ then they blow it in. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I jabbed at his side with a sharp stake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z While this circumstance is horribly unfortunate for them, it does create important opportunities for a multiracial, bottom-up resistance movement, one in which people of all races can claim a clear stake. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After leaning toward allowing Pollard to ride in his stakes engagements, they changed their minds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A new kind of competition between Russia and the United States took shape that fall, a nuclear arms race that quickly raised the stakes of the Cold War to unforeseen and terrifying heights. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There were major-league stakes: intellectual and scientific, financial, and, less often discussed, military. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Priority should have been given to figuring out some way for poor and working-class whites to feel as though they had a stake—some tangible interest—in the nascent integrated racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You might say to yourself, I don’t cheat, regardless of the stakes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When they had last seen him, he was a midlevel stakes winner in the hands of a trainer no one had heard of and a jockey no one remembered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were on a high, and first place in the district was at stake. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take it easy, Charlie. The old man is on edge. This convention means a lot to him. His reputation is at stake.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Janssen polishes her eyeglasses again while she waits for me to answer, rubbing off dust particles they picked up on the floor, murmuring something about the garden stake. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z New York became a frequent destination, and after exploring new aspects of his character, Ridgeway picked up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I'd stake my soul on it. My son . . . you love your children, don't you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This Ptolemaic Egypt is an exquisite corpse, a dead polity that is somehow still ambulatory, only waiting for a stake to be put through its heart by the legions of Augustus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z At most, it simply raised the stakes for tonight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A chill ran through her, because all their lives were at stake, and had been all along. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In a test flight, a pilot staked his reputation and his life on his ability to exercise total, direct, and constant control over the plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It tried to shut its mouth, but the stake between its jaws prevented this. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z But with both superpowers now holding nuclear weapons, the stakes had gotten much higher and the battlefield even larger. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Wiglaf, on Beowulf's instructions, carried a newly cut stake, about six feet long, and a glove that would have fitted a giant. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Three rows of stakes were pulled from the ground to make a hole in the line. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There is a second issue at stake here. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There he saw the three royal griffins tied to stakes, grazing. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z "Are you trying to burn me to the stake? Don’t set fire to that. You’ll roast me alive." Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “The greatest thrill comes from games where the stakes are the highest.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His reputation with the Army was at stake, and his ambition to conquer Troy and exalt Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His AK-47 went off as he fell to the ground, grabbing at the thin stake of wood. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As former US vice president Al Gore has stated, “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more...the future of human civilization is at stake.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He looked at Mary Lou as if she had recently plunged a red hot stake into his heart. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z For his part, Walter Ulbricht understood perfectly well what was at stake. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “She’s not going to pull her stake out or anything, is she?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was a lot of pressure to be at the center of so much attention, especially when the stakes were so high for Muslims in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then I saw it, the body of a man with a stake driven through his chest into the side of the kolkhoz office. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As the Washington boys backed their shell into position, the official in the stake boat for lane three reached out a hand and laid hold of their stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Any undergraduate could see that nuclear physics using artificial beams of high-energy protons and helium ions was such a field, and ... he should stake out a territory there to work and grow in.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The last they saw of him, he was tied to a stake with a fire being built around him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His claims provoked a widespread concern with the replication of his experiments precisely because the viability of Aristotelian orthodoxy was now at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Seeing the glowing eyeball gutted out and spiked on a stake made the girls back away in disgust. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z People of color are often reluctant to challenge institutions led by people who look like them, as they feel a personal stake in the individual’s success. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Hey, if there’s a trial, maybe you can be my lawyer, Tab. Right before they bum me at the stake or whatever.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Smith then shipped him down to Cincinnati’s River Downs, where the horse narrowly missed winning two more minor stakes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor whites suddenly had a direct, personal stake in the existence of a race-based system of slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He stood tongue-tied, feeling his very existence an intrusion, while Zau directed Heqet to the farthest stall, and to the cupboard where he would find the stake. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A simpler culture had already staked out the best farmland in the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A hundred years earlier and she would have been burned at the stake for her visions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I just duck into the library, staking claim to a computer. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Furthermore, I felt as though it were something more than a mere building at stake. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For this and other crimes he was burned at the stake in the year 1600. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail was blazed in the 1930s by a legendary Alaska miner named Earl Pilgrim; it led to antimony claims he’d staked on Stampede Creek, above the Clearwater Fork of the Toklat River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I stab my wooden stake high into the dummy’s chest, feeling it puncture the body and hit the tree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those men were scary, but something valuable was at stake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I know the fate of Manhattan was at stake and all that, but the one and only Gilgamesh had eaten at our deli! City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Keeping another stake aimed at the chupacabras, I leaned down and inspected Pita’s leg. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Lee said, “You can begin at any time. But plan it well, plan it well. We stake everything on this.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Seventeen’s old enough to grab a stake in something, sure enough. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Such pleas, inevitably, were ignored, and members of Congress would gather in wood-paneled committee rooms and spend hours examining in minute detail the Osage’s expenditures, as if the country’s security were at stake. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He, who staked ten thousand on the throw of the dice and laughed, became more hard and mean in business, and sometimes dreamt of money at night. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I staked out a spot right by the sidewalk, where she could look down and see it. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Media were banned from the courtroom, but dozens of reporters and photographers staked out positions in front of the courthouse. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad had staked out seats just above us, about six rows up and on the aisle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I dropped the duffel and grabbed at the stake. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Zach is what in sports is called a “red-light player”—the bigger the stage and higher the stakes, the better he is. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Although battle was to be engaged on the question of the existence of spirits, the assumption was that it was really the existence of God that was at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This old man with no teeth and a straw hat showed me how to tie the plants up to stakes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced at die dead men on their stakes, smiled, and went off to join Ser Godry and the other queen’s men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ralph staked his credibility on Molly’s behavior; he worked hard to persuade Dina that a sweet kid was hiding under that fierce hair and makeup. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z While they were agreeing with Lee Scoresby what to play and for what stakes, his daemon flicked her ears at Pantalaimon, who understood and leaped to her side lightly as a squirrel. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She knew firsthand how high the stakes were in Odessa, how “goin’ to State” was not something merely desired but demanded. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever your decision, one can vary the stakes or the number of people involved so as to induce you to reverse your decision. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold the farm and picked up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Back in my troupe, my father occasionally made us pull up stakes and leave a town despite the fact that we were welcome and the crowds were generous. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘And our scouts say that they have cast trenches and stakes across the road. We cannot sweep them away in sudden onset.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But really, I love that I’ve staked my claim on his memory. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Hoo did, but he was in no mood for humor; ten thousand dollars was at stake. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It reawakened her to people and things, and she decided to hold on to her stake, even though she was young and small and had nobody to look after her anymore. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The pinewood stakes still stood, charred and scorched but not burned through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My face reflected the seriousness of what I believed was at stake, how important the choice that lay before our nation really was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I said what stake you got in this guy? You takin’ his pay away from him?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Bringing clients back to Everest year after year, the guides had a stake in this that one-time visitors did not. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He had staked out a personal fiefdom on campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Most importantly, the conversation at Jefferson’s quarters was merely one part of an ongoing and larger conversation in which the very survival and subsequent shape of the American republic seemed at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They wanted to feel the superiority and invincibility that had once been theirs, to stake a claim once again to Friday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He flicked on the squad car’s headlights and there, on a grassy mound marked by a freshly planted survey stake, stood a pair of burrowing owls. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And the races would be for the highest of stakes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lastly, I felt that a right more immediately deeper than that of politics or race was at stake; that is, a human right, the right of a man to think and feel honestly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As a half-moon crept up the sky, they staked their horses out in the village commons and supped on salted mutton, dried f apples, and hard cheese. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dad added, “Those stakes are just temporary. Until it can stand on its own.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls are glistening white, and two black pillars surround a white statue of Abraham Van Helsing driving a stake into Vladimir, one of the Night Brothers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He was not being characteristically diplomatic when he claimed that Madison and Hamilton both understood the issues at stake more fully than he did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The stakes were so much higher for the others. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Now this man three times her size, a bruiser, had taken her stake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When he was younger and the anxiety got this bad, when the stakes in his life were much, much lower, this would be the point of self-destruction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She continues to hold the stake until he topples forward, and then she slides it almost lazily back into the earth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z "Whoever bet on twenty-six receives sixty-four times their stake." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He also hoped to precede the rest of the cavalry and stake the first claim to the reward money. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew, he would have staked his life on it, that she had come for him, and him alone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Incredibly, Woolf’s timing was so good that he rode for more than a decade before he was beaten in a photo finish of a stakes race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Dealing with criminals and high stakes took its toll on Kaylene. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z To them a house meant much more than shelter; it was a stake in their new country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z So much was at stake in the upcoming match that conflict was almost bound to result. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I asked, poking him in the chest with the sharp tip of my stake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Bono looked up from the tent stake we were driving into the ground. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t share the pledge he had made to Hazel, but he made clear what he felt the stakes were going into the new year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The hospital was no more than a few months old and a few feet high when people began attempting to stake their claims. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Quick as lightning he thrust the big stake into the Firedrake's jaws, jamming them open even as the creature gaped wide to let loose the first foul gust of flame. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Madison understood better than most what was at stake in the debate over slavery. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh sure, I just arrived nine days ago and I’ve already staked him out.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They stake everything on that moment, posing for photographs while planting the flag, casting themselves in bronze. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sammy was then able to offer some little stake, to help her back on her feet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Janssen opens the door, staring at me as I stand in her back garden with her dirty garden stake, the one I’ve just used to do what she thought was impossible. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You ask me, I think they ought to round them all up and burn them at the stake.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The latrines that ringed the encampment were overflowing and swarming with flies, and she saw faint greenish fuzz on many of the sharpened stakes that protected the perimeters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The long curly cord snakes around and around her thin body, like a rope tying her to the stake. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They believed that the stakes were nothing less than the “destruction of the home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z What’s at stake and how big a deal it would be to win...which just reminds me of our loss to the Stockwood Sharks. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z On December 22 the chairman of the California Horse Racing Commission gathered reporters together and issued the board’s decree: Red Pollard was banned from riding all horses, including stakes mounts, until January 1,1938. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Since 1400 theologians had been discussing what they called ‘moral certainty’—evidence good enough to rely on, even if there is a great deal at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But so many times in Jewish history, what was at stake was a lot more than a trophy or a championship. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Many sit with their backs against the sacks at the front of the car: they look like scarecrows shipping west to be staked in some terrible garden. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It looked like a streamer from one of the survey stakes, but it wasn’t. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The stakes are considered high because instead of simply testing students to measure their progress, schools are increasingly held accountable for the results. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Hey, let's get up at the crack of dawn. We'll try it out down on the beach! Just you and me, right? Before all the little tourists stake out every square inch, right?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Painted over my bed is a Black girl with two X’s for eyes and a stake in her heart. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Taking a good look at the quills on his back, I ran my stake along them to test their sturdiness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The stakes are higher of course, play the wrong song in a tavern and people might hiss you, but misjudge an entire town and things can get uglier than that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If I didn’t have school, I could stake out the postal box and solve the mystery of the missing letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The short-term wins for the United States and United Kingdom included regaining limited access to Iran's oil by having a stake in a holding company called Iranian Oil Participants, or IOP. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And never did the stakes seem higher than on waffle day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But as the rope felt his mass, it groaned and the bamboo stakes began to tear out of the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Fred Johnson would stake him to a new start in life; he’d have to, if he wanted ever to be rid of him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The stakes were in the tack room of the barn, as was the tying-twine, so when I finished hoeing I tied them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Some of us load our shoulders with pointed and twisted iron stakes; others thrust smooth iron rods through rolls of wire and go off with them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z So much more than my life is at stake now. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As I hauled in the pot, something over five hundred dollars—my first real stake in Boston—John got up from the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Well, since we’re claiming this is an emergency and that many livelihoods are at stake, I’d say three to six months.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In their minds, the political stakes were enormous, the threat posed by the Federalists put the entire republican experiment at risk, the battle was to the death, and taking prisoners was not permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The priestess in her tom robes, impaled upon a stake and attended by a cloud of glistening green flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was very clear what was at stake, but they wouldn’t give up their radio.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He staked the team’s claim to the discovery with a letter to the Physical Review dated January 28, 1941. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Again the trespassers had methodically removed every survey marker and filled in the stake holes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z George said, “Slim, will we get canned now? We need the stake. Will Curley’s old man can us now?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Abhi took two—for bracelets—Zoser the little one for—thread. And I myself have—used the others. I'll not—weigh short at the end of the day, you may—stake your life on that!” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The ground was still pretty soggy from the winter, and the sand around the stakes was all wet through. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The policeman picked up the survey stake and examined it. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jabbing upward, I use the vegetable stake to poke around until I feel it—the iron latch inside the door—and I try to use the stake to swing the latch up into place. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In moments both the stakes were engulfed in fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The twins and I clubbed and raked them until they were stunned and dazed, and Juanita finished them off by staking them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Families staked out spots before the stage, unrolling blankets and removing supper from baskets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Vanderbilt gave him a reasonable starting proposal: He would make the Pimlico Special, the prestigious stakes race that War Admiral had won in 1937, into a two-horse event. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor was it just the suddenly erratic performance of the sophomores on whom he had staked so much hope. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All of these corporate and political interests have a stake in the expansion—not the elimination—of the system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The bottom of the stake widened into a mini shovel. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t dig in my child’s territory!” my mother screamed a warning and hurried over to protect my discovery by staking out the area I was digging in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I forgot about what was at stake, and I forgot about the millions of people watching me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Our national honor is at stake,” said Senator Richard Russell of Georgia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I said, thinking of people being burned on the stake in olden days. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether it’s wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Noah and the flood was obviously a favorite; I had a personal stake there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Kochu Thomban had finished his ceremonial rounds, and lay tethered to a wooden stake next to a steaming mound of his own dung. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose we were just playing for higher stakes than the Germans. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Alright,” Redd said, “we can figure this out on the way, but let’s get moving. I want the Penitentiary staked out so we can see what’s what from there.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Unable to catch Seabiscuit working, the newsmen took a page from the Wise We Boys and staked out tactical positions around the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Each ward has about five hundred people, and roughly ten wards make up a stake, which has a president. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The beast grasped the stake, pulled it out of his eye socket, and cried out, a wounded, demented howl that raised the hair on the back of my neck. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Passengers have already staked out parts of the vestibule, sitting glumly on their luggage. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “He attacked Pita. We have to kill him,” Juanita said, lifting her stake high in the air, ready to deliver the final blow. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Despite the life-and-death stakes, the Marines were eager to engage the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad held back at first and lost some money to Robbie, then started upping the stakes and beating him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When the villagers lit the flames on the stake to burn her alive, I reached in and saved her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z This would be the third attempt, and this time there were even more lives at stake. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Nothing appeared to have been disturbed, including the survey stakes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t as convinced that the chupacabras could be defeated with stakes and holy water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Some go to live in other camps, where they learn to make poison stakes, and others follow the soldiers as porters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Otto bounced against my back as Songololo followed us, the stake in her hand so it wouldn’t tug on her wrist anymore. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If you refrained from pressing, you would probably have reversed that decision if the stakes had been $10,000 vs. $9,500. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove iron stakes into the ground to fortify the chicken coop against future mink attacks and treasured the few eggs he gathered every morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He swung the stake and the savage tumbled over; but there were others coming toward him, crying out. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The Irishman staked a claim, opened a brick factory on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, and made a fortune on the Northwest’s turn-of-the-century construction boom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The crews here, tonight, were better; the stakes were higher. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The Hogsmeade form wasn’t the only thing at stake — if he carried on like that, he’d be in trouble with the Ministry of Magic. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Fortifications fell and ceilings collapsed, and when the queen was found in her chambers, the mob seized her and dragged her to the stake right then to burn her alive. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Nothing so much as a pound of flesh is at stake.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even now, when the competition stakes were becoming so much higher, she still encouraged me to train with dedication, then go out there and have fun. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a stake driven upright in the ground, and he had to fight against it with sword and shield—rather like shadow-boxing, or ««ng a punch-ball. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In both cases, Dobzhansky noted, the fundamental questions at stake were biological. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They seesawed the stake back and forth to loosen the dirt until they could pull it free. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We used May’s tomato stakes and other bits of board we could find and we filled up May’s empty garden with Dreams and Thunderstorms and Fire and that bright white Spirit that was May herself. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Darwin understood the stakes implicit in that claim. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once more he placed his half-formed bowl upon the shaping stake and, raising his elbow high, gave a sharp, firm tap. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "You get out of our fidd now, and take these sneaks and stabbers with you, or we'll stake you up in the corn to scare the other crows away." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z LeVisqueux attached a pulley to a pinion he’d staked into the cave floor, then looped a cord through the pulley’s wheels. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z What was at stake in the ‘Apology’ was not just the reasonableness of Christian faith, but the reliability of all the claims made by philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He watched, his eyes heavy with exhaustion, as she took his bowl to the sink, placed it there, and then, leaning on her stick, gathered some stakes from a shelf, and a ball of twine. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Especially when there really was not much at stake—just a hunch of hers that the boys may have wandered down there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was but a quarter of a body torn from the rest: unseeing, gaping head and lolling arm with shoulder and ribs to join them, impaled upon a stake, and much busied with flies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z While I fed and watered the mules and staked them out under some trees, the other fellers made camp. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Larson asked whether I didn’t think it was wrong when companies had something to gain by seeing people sentenced to prison—in other words, when they had a stake in their failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Left with the class’s emblematic cars, Lilly Pulitzer skirts and Ralph Lauren shirts, their golf, tennis, and soccer, and, most conspicuously, their houses, they have staked out their place and inflated the American dream. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I see a loosely built part where the stakes are far apart and the bushes sparse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Upon my word, I didn’t move it. It rolled a bit, perhaps, but that is allowed. So, stand off please, and let me have a go at the stake.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In silence the two boys lifted the heavy stake and carried it between them out into the deserted street, in which the rosy light was graying into dusk. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The marker is straight ahead—a wooden stake poking up out of the ground in the middle of a pile of stones, no wider or higher than a pitcher’s mound. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Should we play for a stake? You always wished to play for a stake.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A deep ditch had been dug around it, with sharpened stakes inside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Also, playing for higher stakes than he could afford in some rather steep bridge games with his New York connections, he had held cards and won several hundred dollars. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was only the third stakes win of Pollard’s career, and in a backward kind of way, he owed it to Woolf. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is my belief that it is accurate. And I am willing to stake my life upon that belief.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The known world is at stake and Muhammad hasn’t left instructions on who will inherit all the goats and the yogurt and the servants and the countries. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z John and Mary Jones and their fellow black Chicagoans were beyond angry—they had much more at stake than their principles. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It blasts away the ropes and the stake, spraying fiery splinters all over us and obliterating all thought, Noise, and sound. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z By slowly feeling her way around—and scrambling back onto shore when a large wave came through—Nhamo staked out a sizable area where the water reached no higher than her chest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From outside came the clang of horseshoes on the iron stake, and then a little chorus of cries. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The high financial stakes would spawn intense and often vicious competition between gangsters, and many would die. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Well, I have as much respect for ancient learning as you do, but I don’t know that I’d want to stake my life on some home remedy from the Middle Ages.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I see now what the stakes are for her and how she wants nothing more than to break out of the delicate little box her parents have built for her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z With all this at stake, could there be a practical way out that let each side claim some victory? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Riccio jumped ashore and tied the boat to one of the wooden stakes sticking out of the water. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They post a stake with a sign over all the nests they find—the ones they move and the ones they do not—saying that it is against the law to disturb the nest. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The horse had proved fairly useful as a stakes horse, but he was an incorrigible rogue at the starting gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z First, somebody pulling the survey stakes; then dumping the alligators in the latrines; then spray-painting his squad car while he was asleep inside—this was the work of bold and defiant perpetrators. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Since what is often at stake in moral choices is confidence that one has got the facts right, the term was extended to other contexts in which people make judgements about questions of fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here is a situation where the stakes were high, where things were moving quickly, and where the participants had to make sense of a lot of new and confusing information in a very short time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z After we had finished carving out as many stakes as we could, Juanita placed the finished ones strategically along the walls so that everyone had access to them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z That could mean a felony, jail time, real stakes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And my brothers wore such serious faces that I was sure something was at stake that was greater than avoiding the tradesmen’s door to Hong Sing’s. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Hus and Jerome, with the mitres of apostasy upon their heads, had flamed and fizzled at the stake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For a week the dead prisoner remains strapped to the stake in the courtyard, his flesh frozen gray. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And the stakes, for him now, were personal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the time of the vote, with the city’s pride at stake, all Chicago had sung with one voice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I can do this, all right? It’s Darin’s life at stake here. I just wish I knew...” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Jon slipped sideways between two sharpened stakes while Ghost slid beneath them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Most lived in rural country and were eager to put a stake in the lush ground, no longer as slaves but as farmers of their own land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Cleopatra knew what was at stake and the treachery Octavian would stoop to in order to achieve his goals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point of it in the body. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They tried holding the whole carcass on a stake over the fire, but the stake burnt more quickly than the pig roasted. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z So I don’t think we’ll be staking out any more mailboxes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The above message can be found written on larger-than-life signs staked on every road leading into Alexandra, where I was bom and raised, or for that matter, into any other black ghetto of South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course he didn’t. But Tina didn’t know that. Branwell gave the impression that he was staking out his place in the family, letting them know that he was there first.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the west side, the observation train jolted to a stop adjacent to the line of stake boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe you should tie me to a stake, douse me in kerosene, and torch me right on our front lawn. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed the duffel, dropping the stake as I did, and passed through the gate with Otto and the duffel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He could not be certain, and with so much at stake, Lamphere knew he had to dig deeper. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The file would be closed forever, because now my new career in track, which was really my soon-to-be career in basketball, was at stake. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The rain was still falling, so the cart drivers suspended woolen blankets between four stakes that stuck up from the corners of the carts. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And just to make sure Kurchatov and his team understood what was at stake, Stalin placed his head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria, in charge of the bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The ship has been on the Common for two days, and people have staked out their places in line so they won’t get bumped. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I look over where this end of the bridge is tied to the stakes in the rock. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I felt like a large wooden stake had been driven into my chest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit covered with dry leaves, and it stopped lowing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He could keep his pride if that was what he thought was at stake. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z On the track, bug boys were like any other commodity, to be leased, sold, swapped for horses, put up as collateral, and staked in card games. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Those X’s over the eyes and the stake in the heart....I feel like I could throw up. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Abbott led the way to a booth and staked it out by setting down her purchases there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They drove the securing stakes deeper around the net. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A standard argument was that a Christian needed moral certainty of the truths of their faith, since the fate of their soul was at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In early June, as Seabiscuit was being humiliated in a cheap stakes race in New Hampshire, Granville finally lived up to expectations by winning New York’s Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the lawn, Bunny had finally made his shot; the ball went wide of the sixth and seventh arches but, incredibly, hit the turning stake. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But my father knew—and I knew—that there was more than just avuncular love at stake for him in these visits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sharpened stakes were wrenched from the ground, planks were dropped across deep ditches, and the stockade gates were thrown wide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They needed two more, she said, and reminded them of the stakes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Durufle is said to be outraged, for the convent's reputation is at stake. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z More was at stake, much more, than the throbbing egos of two ambitious statesmen vying for personal honor. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Even the roaches seemed to have pulled up stakes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The stakes could be higher in some games than others, but Bull played them all to win. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the survey stakes were gone, uprooted and carted off with the trash. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In foster homes, holidays always had a way of making me feel like an outsider—and now the stakes were higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She moves to the bridge and starts flinging fluid all over the knots on the closest stake, shaking out the last drops into a puddle at the base. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “I quickly reasoned that more than food was at stake here,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, James staked out a table next to Maddie’s in the library, his latest code work spread in front of him. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But he understood the stakes of the mission, and he told Hoover, “I am human enough and ambitious enough to want it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Later, he told a newsman that though he hadn’t studied the offer in detail, he’d decided to play the match because “there’s an awful lot of prestige of the country at stake.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They seesawed the stake back and forth to loosen the dirt until they could pull it free. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I do not know how I would have reacted had I not been standing in full view of the other prisoners, but my pride was now at stake. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Next month after the shucking bee, the farm would host the most important gathering yet, to address the recent debates about picking up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As for the Ethyl Corporation, it’s still going strong, though GM, Standard Oil, and Du Pont no longer have stakes in the company. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They pound the iron stake into the ground in a battery of perfectly timed strokes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “We had the table staked out, see? We was watching to see, wondering who brought them goofy flat pancakes.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There is a stake too, and he ties the horse to it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A giraffe passes between us, its long neck bobbing gracefully even in panic, and when it’s gone I see that Rosie has pulled her stake from the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Half a league from the crossroads, a barricade of sharpened stakes had been erected, manned by pikemen and archers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By the night of July 3, the boys had grown nervous and unsettled, the magnitude of what was at stake starting to sink in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At regular intervals we ram in the iron stakes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "This is the work of a person far above eighteen years. This is no immature youth! The people must be protected from traitors like him! The Fatherland is at stake!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If this is a fact, it should be of interest to the immunologic community, which has long since staked out claims on the mechanisms involved in the discrimination between self and non-self. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would it be any less cruel to let those two German divisions down to fight with our troops? American lives are at stake, too, you know. Would you rather see American blood spilled?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I ran to steady him but was rammed from behind by old one-armed Tata Kili, who could not get past me fast enough in his hurry to claim his own stake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Because, she realized, if she was going to be burned at the stake for magic—well, they would be, too. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But it is also due to the growing realization of how much is at stake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, like a small circus tent pulling up its stakes and dropping soft fold on fold, the silks rustled, the mask descended, the silver claws tinkled on the stone path. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But we often staked out the secret path, hoping someday to catch someone in the act of sneaking into that ill-reputed barrio. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They all understood the very high stakes of this eleventh game. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In the past, anyhow, the sight of animals, the scent of money deals with expensive stakes, had done much for him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “What was he in your plans, then? You staked yourself on him, it seems, and fell. Why?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon I found myself borrowing little stakes, from Sammy, from some of the musicians. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But his talk all those years later was a sobering reminder of how high the stakes had been that day whether we knew it or not. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She’s not staked out, so I look for her in the woods. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After Curly retired to the air-conditioned comfort of the trailer, the patrolman began walking the property, following the line of his flashlight beam from one survey stake to the next. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first show, Dracula, Welles simulated the sound of a stake being driven through the vampire’s heart by cracking open a watermelon with a hammer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z On the night after Woolf won a top stakes race, the owner of the winning horse called to invite him to a postrace soiree with the moneyed set. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the other females reached for the stake, and I tapped her on the head as her hand came near. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It will have to develop new symbiotic relations with the Oceanographic Institute, since both places have so much at stake. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered where Granddaddy was while I staked out my dubious claim to lace-making fame. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He carried the white stake in his left hand. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time in his ten-year career that he had been beaten in a photo finish of a stakes race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “He took my best friend, Old Theresa, away to be burned at the stake. He lives at Saint-Denis.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z So on Monday, while Lily slept, I went up to the den with a bowl of Cheerios and staked out the front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z With so much at stake, they had to step in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The thought of ceding to the army a project in which the foundation had such an immense stake stirred Fosdick’s proprietary blood. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been willing to put up with such discomfort if something extremely important had not been at stake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Navid was thrilled—but only because he had a personal stake in my progress. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He had been in the position of a husband who could, by a single command, solve the problem of eternal triangles by reference to the headsman’s block or to the stake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Five thousand fans gushed into the grandstand and clubhouse, staking out their territory with blankets and spring jackets. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z FBI agents were sent to stake out the beach in case the saboteurs returned. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z If that happened, it would be like Brazil all over again, only with higher stakes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In dreamier moments, I’d thought I might use it to stake up some hollyhocks come spring. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Frowning, we bound the stakes, our knots loose with inattention. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The officer sticks wooden stakes into the sand and ties neon tape around each to create a giant square of bright tape around the seal. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z After Gallant Sir, he didn’t ride another stakes winner for years. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Me and Rondell sat down on a big wood stake that was overturned at the end of one of the few empty campsites and put down our bags. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I had to crawl over Brian and sit in the middle because he and Lori had already staked out the window seats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But what does that matter when your life is at stake? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I ask the media not to focus on me or on Henry, but on the campaign, on policy, on the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans at stake in this election. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The gutted carcass of a pig swung from the stake, swinging heavily as the twins toiled over the uneven ground. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Harry sped on, staring around, and soon the dwellings became more numerous; there were gardens of weed around some of them, and he even saw a pet grindylow tied to a stake outside one door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But when nothing happened, he looked up and saw again how truly deserted the Casin was, and the sight brought home to him the high stakes they were playing for. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Unfair though this may seem on the Muggle in question, it is nevertheless preferable to being burnt at the stake or drowned in the village duckpond. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This may be the crudest twist yet in high- stakes testing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Hamilton believed—and he had a good deal of evidence to support his belief—that the very survival of the infant American nation was at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the trees around the parking lot, the harpies gathered to watch as if they sensed what was at stake. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z "Hand me the garden stake. I'm going outside for a minute." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “They would have to drive a stake through her heart to make it legal,” Lloyd said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Before you pull that trigger, you need to remember what you have at stake,” he said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Hesitant, wary of some trap, the first few prisoners edged across the planks and through the ring of the stakes, toward Melisandre and the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With the attached bamboo stakes, Minli and the dragon had anchored their end of the bridge to the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But time had taken a visible toll; tears in the seams hadn’t been mended, and rust coated most of the metal stakes hammered into the grass to keep it secure. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Our house sat on concrete stilts that allowed enough headroom underneath for us to stake out play areas with clearly defined boundaries. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z By the time one sledge hits the stake, five others are in motion. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Wouldn't you know that as soon as I got a claim staked and a place built, the doc here would tell me this cough was going to kill me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He’d measured it off and marked it with stakes and string. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a clang of horseshoe on iron stake outside and a little cheer of voices. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached behind me, grabbed the nearest stake, and stabbed at the chupacabras. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But there were other kids, other lives at stake. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z For decades, baseball fans in Seattle had to choose an eastern team to root for if they wanted a stake in the big leagues. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With this stake came a heavy hammer, such as in households is used in the coal-cellar for breaking the lumps. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Given what is at stake at this moment in history, bolder, more inspired action is required than we have seen to date. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “This is not a good time to ask me what I want. I don’t think you’d like it. Just...remember what’s at stake.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Three stakes had been driven into the icy ground, and three charred bodies were bound to them, their blackened, cracked skin still smoldering. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her movements were restricted, since a piece of rope was around her wrist, leashing her to an iron stake in the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If you strip the clause of its false clues—the words separating the subject and verb—you end up with who . . . played for high stakes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1992, the stakes again felt high: Another African American candidate, Carol Moseley Braun, had surprised everyone by narrowly winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z No. I had planted a stake and now I had something to prove, to my mami and to myself, to everyone from my neighborhood. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z During the day, we train with the few sickles, hoes, knives, stakes, and guns that are available in the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here it is: ‘Last Monday, unknown intruders uprooted survey stakes from the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifted the stake high in the air and brought it down, splitting his head like a watermelon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “So, this isn’t just a fling. What do you mean, when there’s a lot more at stake?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Trip wires with early-warning alarms are scattered throughout the yard, but these are clearly marked by stakes in the ground and we step over them easily. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Ellsberg was glad to have help, though working with his wife only raised the stakes higher. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Let’s burn her at the stake,” he said huskily, abruptly lurching forward to stub out his cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If Redemption’s safety was at stake, then it was worth it, this desperate attempt to get them to open their eyes and change their minds. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I took a branch about as big around as my thumb, broke it in half, then used a rock to pound both halves into the earth like tent stakes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Across the way young Meryra knelt before one of the shaping stakes, hammering his first bowl. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They staked out the doll shop, and they examined Dickinson’s bank account and safe-deposit box. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then, as if he were staking me to a public challenge, he added, “It is therefore not the South Africa government which now stands in the way of Mr. Mandela’s freedom. It is he himself.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When they saw Catelyn's banners, they emerged from behind their sharpened stakes and sent a man over from the far bank to lead her party across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I worked my way toward our stuff and leaned back with one hand to grasp the metal stake. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe because more was at stake than going to the pictures or buying ice cream. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z They staked out the barn, constantly asking Smith to pull the horse out of his stall for photo sessions and even to let them sit on his back, as if he were a carnival pony. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were bathed in blood they tied her to a post, drove a stake through her heart, and burned her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the simplest decisions seemed wrought with impossibly high stakes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z In her white shift, tied to the high stake, she remained motionless in the movement She rode above them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the mother in that photograph—V would stake her life on it—was Caroline herself, clear as day. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There’s a wooden sign staked in the corner. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Then Odysseus and his men drew out the great stake from its hiding-place and heated the point in the fire until it almost burst into flame. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We staked the oxen out in a bit of grazing common near the pens and went into the tavern for some supper. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The presence of peers is one of the things that raises the emotional stakes, making it more likely that teens will seek out risk and short-term reward without pausing to consider the consequences. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “We have no choice. The baby’s life is at stake,” Polly replied, trying to sound hopeful. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The stake went into his right eye, piercing through his glowering red eyeball. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z As they waited at the tea stall, Ronny, who looked like the older of the two boys, clambered suddenly out of the back seat, intrigued by a goat tied to a stake in the ground. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Milkman hoisted the stake he was carrying a little higher and said, “I dropped the gun. I tripped and it went off. Then when I picked it up it went off again.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The only good part is that ReelTok has folded up his tent and is no longer staking out the school from the park across the street. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In the team meeting Gaines had told the players to ignore the pressure, to put out of their minds how much was at stake and how much the game meant to the people of Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All his neighbors were leaving then, sadly pulling up stakes, moving on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Camels, llamas, zebras, and horses stand behind low ropes slung between iron stakes, their heads buried in mounds of hay. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She shows me a stone monument, like a proud claim staked upon the humble chapel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Besides, like C.P., she had a personal stake in the issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When she was sitting at a safer distance, I came back to the chupacabras and started circling him while my sisters kept their stakes at his throat and back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A metallic tinkling intermingled with new screams as hundreds of the pitching stakes outside uprooted, unable to bear the tent’s new strain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Within a few days I was equipped with several sharp iron stakes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the chupacabras let go of Pita’s leg, I shoved the stake deeper into his skull with the full weight of my body behind it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We may have just found ourselves a new stake. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried steel bars, axes, knives, wooden stakes, and hammers— all the weapons used by the Khmer Rouge soldiers to kill their victims. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My friend Chester was curled up on the brown velvet armchair, which years ago he’d staked out as his own. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z "This is not the time for bed sport, Shae. Your life may be at stake." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I splashed my urine on the tarpaulin and over the locker lid to stake my claim. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Your life is at stake, so we want to be sure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A big, rough-looking white man with bright red hair stood up and put his hand on the Preacher’s chest and said, “Show’s over, boy. We’s pulling up stakes tonight and don’t need no more workers.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, James staked out a table next to Maddie’s in the library, his latest code work spread in front of him. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “The stakes are higher now. It matters to me what your answer is.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then I staked out the driveway from the porch with my book on my lap until Mrs. Baylor stuck her head out the door. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Without Valley’s stakes, and without any idea what she was doing, Seven began to sweat and tremble with fear. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Brother Leon intoned, “the quota is doubled this year because we have more at stake than ever before.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Picture albums, address books, receipt-keeping, these were the happy tasks of people completely staked to one another, so that they could produce a chit on demand, order and reorder their memories for a future day. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He staked the doghouse into the ground with three stakes, all he had. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The marchers changed their plans, returning to Hayti by a different route than the one C.P. had staked out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z With that, he became the first person to legally stake a claim to his own tissue and sue for profits and damages. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was slow work, puncturing the tank with a hammer and stake, then waiting for the fuel to drip out so the tank could be safely removed with a cutting torch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The water in the skins was two months stale, and besides, he’d gotten used to the labor—which involved an ironwood mallet and pounding stakes deep into the sand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The field, including two major stakes winners, was the most formidable Seabiscuit had ever faced. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew exactly what the stakes were this year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I thought would happen when we talked to our parents, but I understood instinctively what was at stake. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By then the rest of the bonobos had given up on the mystery of the missing stake and returned to foraging. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z |
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