stake down

Example Sentences

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In fact, the circus left town before anyone could even stake down the tent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023

It has said it intends to sell the stake down gradually to fund a share repurchase program.

From Reuters • Nov. 1, 2022

Saverin, 30, has a $1.1 billion stake, down $960 million since the offering.

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 17, 2012

Treasury has expressed a desire to hold two stock sales this year, potentially bringing its stake down to perhaps 33 percent.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011

All other expenses, from the largest in which the family honour is at stake, down to the pocket-money of the younger sons, stand to one another in a rational, not a conventional relation.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob