stakes in English

noun
1
a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, act as a boundary mark, etc..
A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage.
2
a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment.
Opinions and beliefs which are popular need no protection - it's the hard and unpopular ones that people get stoned and burned at the stake for.
verb
1
support (a tree or plant) with a stake or stakes.
Trees are frequently staked for support after planting and there is much debate as to whether these should be long stakes, short stakes or even slanting stakes.

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1. Heads on stakes!

2. Agilite dog agility equipment products include hurdles, tire jumps, tunnels and stakes, chutes and stakes

3. Stakes may be any amount.

4. Bessarabian Marks Artie's Princess' Graded Stakes Debut

5. Look, stakes marking the property line.

6. Then how about upping the stakes? Hmm?

7. Abrogate Set for Stakes Debut in Dixie Belle

8. Saturday's 12-race Belmont Stakes Day card, featuring six graded stakes and highlighted by Tiz the Law's victory in the 152nd running of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes, generated all-sources handle of $67,753,336

9. I have visited stakes and wards that are united.

10. An amateur shouldn't play roulette for high stakes.

11. Unaware of the stakes, you have accomplished your task.

12. " The challenges are formidable and the stakes are high .

13. The company also sold minority stakes worth $700 million.

14. Regally bred Balladry has placed in multiple graded stakes but remains in search of his first career stakes victory for owner-breeder Darley Stable

15. 13 Always plant stakes to skewer your own cavalry on.

16. 11 The site of the condominium is enclosed with stakes.

17. We go any deeper, we just raise the stakes.

18. Arrogate destroys the field in the 2016 G1 Travers Stakes

19. Stakes and missions have assembled many thousands of hygiene kits.

20. “Where there were branches,” he said, “there are now stakes.

21. So those are the kind of stakes that we're after.

22. Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them.

23. Acclimate Aims to Return to Graded Stakes Success After an abbreviated campaign in 2020, California-bred Acclimate will try to secure the third graded stakes victory of …

24. That is, it is a duty on aggregate net stakes.

25. Wealth Managers Scramble to Sell Minority Stakes, but Should They? By

26. Arrogate, with Mike Smith aboard, won the Travers Stakes in 2016.

27. Antley has won the past five stakes he has ridden in.

28. Arcaded winning the Cerrone Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill in Australia

29. Americanize, a Concord Point gelding owned by Kaleem Shah, emerged as a stakes winner in California during late 2017, winning the Damascus Stakes at Del Mar and then running fourth in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets when shipped to New York and then third by a neck back in California in the Grade 3 Midnight Lute Stakes

30. She put their heads on iron stakes in front of the palace

31. At that time I learned that there were 187 stakes in Brazil.

32. The Beijing municipality, for example, has stakes in about 000 local businesses.

33. Today there are two stakes in Arica, the northernmost city in Chile.

34. Attractive, high-stakes games hidden in the darker reaches of the Internet.

35. The high stakes is today, because you can do something about it.

36. Bast, a daughter of Uncle Mo, won three grade 1 stakes at 2

37. One whiff - and they raise the stakes by digging deeper into their pockets.

38. The stakes rise as the risk of injury or even death increases.

39. The James Cummings-trained Arcaded (2 f Street Boss - Gloriette by Lonhro) added a second stakes win to her record when she landed the Magic Night Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), which holds a ballot exemption into next week’s Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), but the filly is likely to bypass …

40. Abscond next appeared at Woodbine for the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes on Sept

41. In many countries there are mature stakes, with members whose ancestors were converts.

42. Affirmed, (foaled 1975), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who in 1978 became the 11th winner of the Triple Crown of American horse racing—the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes

43. Learn how to use kiosk apps for digital signage or for high stakes testing.

44. laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than hardline Sudan in the fashion stakes.

45. The pressures on him, from all sides, were as tremendous as the stakes.

46. Features include: - Removable stakes - Man bucket - Strobe and work lights - 62 mph-rated Attenuator

47. Aqueduct's biggest stakes: Wood Memorial, scheduled on April 6 for the 2019 Wood Memorial.

48. Nothing remained of my six beloved brothers save for their severed heads on stakes.

49. A man rope ran to the beach, weaving between stakes topped with Teller mines.

50. The stakes are enormously high. Remember, the United States alone absorbs 86% of our exports.