Example sentences for: rakes

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

  • Or as the old tambourine man put it--now I remember--"She rakes just like a woman."

  • The first of the summer's two comet-meets-Earth movies rakes in an opening nonholiday-weekend record of $41.

  • Like Waiting to Exhale , this film about the black bourgeoisie rakes in unexpectedly huge receipts--$30.

  • The tongs consist of two long poles with rakes affixed and crossed at the nether end, rakes many-toothed, curved and facing each other so as to clench the catch of hard-shelled clams.

  • Baseball bats, wooden boards, bricks, chains, tire irons, pipes, even garden tools--hoes and rakes.


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