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Example sentences for: rakes

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

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