Example sentences for: raines

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

  • In Canada, the Toronto Globe and Mail ran an op-ed piece by the New York publisher of Harper's magazine, John R. MacArthur, excoriating Howell Raines, the editorial page editor of the New York Times , for setting "some kind of record for sanctimonious nonsense" in his paper's comments on Flytrap.

  • In fact, it gets even more confusing: Al Kamen of the WP points out that none of the Republicans pushing for easing inheritance taxes and capital gains cuts is a millionaire (if you don't count their homes), while the Democrats who had opposed these ideas include "Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin (worth as much as $90 million), White House Chief of Staff Erskine B. Bowles (who could be worth as much as $60 million), and Office of Management and Budget Director Franklin D. Raines (who might top out at a paltry $35 million)."

  • Left on the street were such synonyms as gleet (1340), clap (1587), and running ranes or raines (1588).

  • (Budget Director Frank Raines dismissed such details as "boring."

  • Franklin Raines made well over $2 million in his last year as Fannie Mae's vice president before he joined the Clinton administration last year as director of the Office of Management and Budget.


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