lay a wager

Example Sentences

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I lay a wager that it righted soon after evicting Jack.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

"Now, I'll lay a wager you are thinking about me!" cried Hoffland; "perhaps you still revolve in your mind my various delinquencies."

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous

We did lay a wager, but I had no idea that the youngster would decide it in that preposterous way.

From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

I'll lay a wager Chatterton will give you a lot of stuff like the "Friar's Bridge" when he sees you.'

From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma

They started for the main street at a trot, and Vane panted out:— “I’ll lay a wager that the engine’s locked up, and that they can’t find the keys.”

From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by Cooper, A.W.