put on the line
Example Sentences
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When he went down a break at 4-2 his ability to tolerate pain was put on the line too.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022
And, since our own bodies weren’t put on the line by a draft, the personal stakes were admittedly abstract to those of us who did not enlist to fight.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2019
It remains unclear how many of those troops will be put on the line to combat the forest fires.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2019
Clearly that works as an applause line, but the brains put on the line every week don’t belong to the people applauding.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2017
It was her marriage that she couldn’t put on the line.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
