Words similar to rake
Example sentences for: rake
How can you use “rake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
She wins the admiration of her peers for landing the rake and he wins by landing the filly who was known as impossible to break.
In the first category were babelard or babillard for babbler; lubbard for big, stupid lout (from which came landlubber); caynard lazy dog (ultimately from the Italian cagna bitch); losard rake or profligate (from Old English losel one who is lost to perdition); and the mellifluous but contumelious musard , whose sin was day-dreaming.
The union leader said, "They're not going to rake it in if the trains aren't running."
At a meatspace casino or a virtual one, the house makes its money by taking a small percentage rake from each poker pot, or renting the seats by the hour.
Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society (read: office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.