Example sentences for: rake

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

  • 3) As a senator, she couldn't rake in book and lecture fees to pay off her legal bills.

  • 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.

  • More negative responses: The critics are resentful about the fact that the film will rake in money despite their reviews.

  • It’s still a grand old building even if its role has now diminished to that of a nightclub, renamed Casanova after the famous rake who reputedly stayed here.

  • 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.


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