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Example sentences for: rakes

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Like Waiting to Exhale , this film about the black bourgeoisie rakes in unexpectedly huge receipts--$30.
Baseball bats, wooden boards, bricks, chains, tire irons, pipes, even garden tools--hoes and rakes.
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.
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.