Example sentences for: racked

How can you use “racked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Corrupt leadership, however, has left the nation racked with poverty and unable to correct itself--a predicament blamed largely on the prevalence of graft among Nigerian politicians.

  • But the Soviet Union racked up a series of unmanned firsts between 1965 and 1968: the first impact on

  • When Davis formed this band, he had racked up an enviable series of accomplishments.

  • By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.

  • The WSJ reports that Lockheed, one of the companies in the competition to develop a new fighter airplane for all the services, has thus far racked up $150 million in cost overruns.


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