Get to know Ante better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like stake or stakes.
Ante in a sentence
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Ante meaning
- A price or cost, as in up the ante.
- In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.
Using Ante
- The main meaning on this page is: A price or cost, as in up the ante. | In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.
- Useful related words include: stake, stakes, bet, wager.
- In the example corpus, ante often appears in combinations such as: the ante, ante with, quo ante.
Context around Ante
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ante
- In this selection, "ante" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, existing, producing, quo, diem, juric and considerably stand out and add context to how "ante" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and torque ante in the and ante juric insisted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ante" sits close to words such as accumulating, angie and armistice, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ante
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
EC3 eloquently responded by upping the ante. (7 words)
However, they have upped the ante considerably since then. (9 words)
And now you have the question, actually, can we go back to the status quo ante? (16 words)
Ante Juric insisted Cortnee Vine was fit to play after Sydney FC was upset by A-League Women newcomers Western United, which claimed a 1-0 win to reach the grand final in its inaugural season. (36 words)
Badham’s Dracula certainly paved the way for Francis Ford Coppola to up the horny ante with his 1992 adaptation, Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Gary Oldman as the Dark Romantic antagonist. (32 words)
Last week’s budget upped the ante for solo parents – and I’d just bet the pandemic and past few years are creating a lot more of us – in an important way. (32 words)
And now you have the question, actually, can we go back to the status quo ante? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
To create the intercalary day, the existing ante diem sextum Kalendas Martias (February 24) was doubled, producing ante diem bis sextum Kalendas Martias.
And now you have the question, actually, can we go back to the status quo ante?
Ante Juric insisted Cortnee Vine was fit to play after Sydney FC was upset by A-League Women newcomers Western United, which claimed a 1-0 win to reach the grand final in its inaugural season.
Badham’s Dracula certainly paved the way for Francis Ford Coppola to up the horny ante with his 1992 adaptation, Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Gary Oldman as the Dark Romantic antagonist.
By early 2014, the moral ante had been upped: the penalty for noncompliance became, rather more nobly, a contribution to medical research.
EC3 eloquently responded by upping the ante.
For small companies wanting to go deeper, the state will ante up to $3,000 in consulting fees to help determine if employee ownership is a good fit.
However, they have upped the ante considerably since then.
If Patriots fans thought having more than one Jones on the team was confusing, New England upped the ante with one of their multiple fourth-round picks.
If they opt for the Hometown Charity, Annapolis Subaru will up the ante and contribute an additional $150.
In Season 6, Episode 14, the culprit upped the ante by leaving a duffle bag containing eight more severed feet in the store.
It’s really a feat to up the ante on client service to such an extent that everything is met with a wide grin.
Last week’s budget upped the ante for solo parents – and I’d just bet the pandemic and past few years are creating a lot more of us – in an important way.
Nonetheless, the same Joe Biden who a year ago warned the world of the risk of nuclear Armageddon has reversed himself yet again and agreed to up the ante in Ukraine.
One thing I remember from those days, though, is if one wanted to participate, one had to ante up.
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS ups the luxury ante among EVs, though its design falls short of the S-Class sedan.
The Gorn served as effective villains in a memorable episode from the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and the second season looks to up the ante.
The new 2.0-liter turbo-4 ups the horsepower and torque ante in the 2023 Jeep Compass, giving it enough oomph to keep pace with traffic.
The second episode of The ups the ante on the show and is already living up to the promise of the story.
The upcoming sequel has an opportunity to really up the ante, however, testing Sam, Tara, Mindy, and Chad in a more extreme way.
Common combinations with ante
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ante 99×
- ante with 20×
- quo ante 14×
- ante in 13×
- ante on 11×
- ante and 9×
- ante by 8×
- ante against 8×
- and ante 7×
- ante diem 5×