stake someone to something

Examples of staked

staked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The author in fact staked out a position that was not merely offensive, but quite blatantly seditious.
Two pods at each site were protected from mammalian seed predators by 1-m high wirecloth cages, which were securely staked to the ground.
Each plant was staked with a single vertical stake 1.5 m high.
Yam seedlings were staked to about 3.5-m height and vines were trained regularly.
In the process, he has staked out - and claimed leadership of - one of the principal positions in a reinvigorated debate.
Some ' moderate ' preachers staked out the ground between these extremes.
Two treatments were applied for both fruit and seed density- and habitat-dependent removal experiments: (1) partial exclosure, protected with a mesh-wire cage staked down to the ground.
Dunbar staked out his claim to mine that material himself with originality, subtlety, and daring.
Charles was desperate to provide the support he had promised his sister and uncle and had staked his personal reputation upon giving it.
The claim must be staked boldly.
Frelimo unequivocally staked its legitimacy on its capacity to replace former colonial market relations with its own institutions, and failed.
At examination, intestines were opened along their lengths and the contents collected over a series of staked sieves with pore sizes of 2 mm, 1 mm and 0.5 mm.
Wellington, however, has always staked its claim as the country's cultural hub.
By repeatedly representing opera as somehow deficient in terms of realism, film has simultaneously staked out its claim to the real and has condescendingly offered opera its services.
All cages were c. 30 cm in height and were staked into the ground to a depth of 2 cm with the aid of a trowel.
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