Example sentences for: rake

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Fuseta itself is little more than a creek of gaily-painted boats bobbing at anchor, while in the background local workers rake salt crystals into small white mountains punctuating the saline delta.

  • The union leader said, "They're not going to rake it in if the trains aren't running."


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