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Example sentences for: rakes

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The first of the summer's two comet-meets-Earth movies rakes in an opening nonholiday-weekend record of $41.
Baseball bats, wooden boards, bricks, chains, tire irons, pipes, even garden tools--hoes and rakes.
Like Waiting to Exhale , this film about the black bourgeoisie rakes in unexpectedly huge receipts--$30.
Or as the old tambourine man put it--now I remember--"She rakes just like a woman."
Yet the group's budget is dwarfed by that of Heritage, which rakes in corporate contributions while scattering its attention between economic and social issues.