lay a wager

Example Sentences

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If the Signes hit twenty times for one missing, a Man may lay a Wager of Twenty to One of the event; but may not conclude it for a Truth.

From Literature

Finals, to lay a wager on which arcing shot, improbable steal or rebound would turn this game, was to ensure you’d go flat broke.

From New York Times

And then I overheard her say, “Look, let’s make the wager. The only way to find out what we honestly believe, and not just what we wish we believe, is to lay a wager.”

From New York Times

True, you cannot well lay a wager about Athelstan or Edred, who have been dead a considerable time, something, in fact, a little under a thousand years,—and they never played things low down for “records” or took sordid cheques or shared in “gate-money”; but they are still interesting, and made things so lively in their days that some of their doings have been handed down through ten centuries—and that is a kind of “record” in itself!

From Project Gutenberg

"Why, thou art a tight little rogue," said the chimney sweep, smiling grimly through his soot, "and could run briskly up a chimney, I lay a wager.—Come, give us thy hand, and say thou wilt go with us."

From Project Gutenberg