Words similar to raking

Example sentences for: raking

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

This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their "balance" by going after the GOP.
He opens an Oreo, holds it to his face, and slides his teeth along the cream while raking his opponent with invisible bullets.
You can't land a job without being raked by the angry gaze of the person you've unfairly replaced, and once you have it there are no guarantees that tomorrow you won't be raking someone else with your own angry gaze.
Updike scatters too many leafy sci-fi fantasies across his pages and never does get around to raking them up again, which is disappointing.
But Singer, who died in 1991, wrote so much and so well in his long career that it would be wrong to conclude that his publishers are cynically raking their way through a justly neglected backlog.