Sentence example with the word 'wagered'

wagered

Last update: July 17, 2015


0

Even among his friends in youth (Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, for example), and not improbably among the city men who wagered their p Y g Y g money in irrecoverable loans to him on the chance of his success, there may have been some who compassed the thought of Benjamin Disraeli as prime minister and peer; but at no time could any fancy have imagined him remembered so enduringly as Lord Beaconsfield has been.   [Please select]

0

"I would have wagered as much."   [Please select]

0

In lieu of money the gamblers wagered with cedar-berries, each of which berries represented a pipeful of tobacco.   [Please select]

0

"Well, if you hadn't told me you were Russian, I should have wagered that you were Parisian."   [Please select]

0

On the day set for these fights, the birds are taken to the arena, descriptions given and amounts wagered.   [Please select]

0

The gentlemen wagered coin of the realm; the ladies gloves and chocolates.   [Please select]

0

These latter were manifestly winning, for there were brother outlaws there who wagered coin with grudging, sullen, greedy eyes.   [Please select]

0

He wagered me a pair of pearl-broidered gloves that I could not produce M.   [Please select]

0

I would have wagered that the little gourmand had reckoned without his host when he undertook to swallow that immense worm.   [Please select]

0

But we couldn't find you after that, and so I came--" He would have wagered that she was going to cry, but she fought the tears back, smiling."   [Please select]

0

"None of your four or five guineas wagers there, fifties and hundreds are nearer the mark, and I have seen a thousand wagered many a time."   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
wager - wagered - wagerer