RAKE in a Sentence

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48 example sentences for RAKE, such as:

1. In the autumn I rake the dead leaves.
2. She raked the soil over to loosen the weeds.
3. The stands at the sports ground rake steeply.
4. The old man began to rake more cinders together.
5. He raked the dead leaves together every morning.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rake
 n.  a dissolute man in fashionable society
 v.  sweep the length of
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  She wanted to rake her sharp nails across his eyes and blot out that queer light in them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
2  She stared with seriousness at every concrete crossing, every hitching-post, every rake for leaves; and to each house she devoted all her speculation.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  He was dashing about with a rake, trying to make the court somewhat less like a plowed field.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  Perhaps he got the feeling of being a rake more from his wife's rage and amazement than from any experiences of his own.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
5  "Had we gone to the bend in the river, we might have been in time to rake the leaves over your bodies, but too late to have saved your scalps," coolly answered the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  At any moment guns would rake that land into furrows; planes splinter Bolney Minster into smithereens and blast the Folly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
7  He gave his throat a thorough rake round, as if it were the duty of every person not to be mistaken through thickness of voice.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  To rake this up couldn't help our poor master, and it's well to go carefully when there's a lady in the case.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
9  In fact, I may say that every one of the lot is a rake.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
10  Presently the massive door of the cell opened to admit a tchinovnik named Samosvitov, a robust, sensual individual who was reputed by his comrades to be something of a rake.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
11  There now, I like your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so you see I do understand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
12  The old man began to rake more cinders together.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
13  He's fond of his glass of grog and he's a bit of a rake, perhaps, and he's a good sportsman.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
14  At length the cook took him into his service, and said he might carry wood and water, and rake the cinders together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
15  He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  The stands at the sports ground rake steeply.
2  I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record.
3  In the spring I use the rake to make a good seed bed.
4  In the autumn I rake the dead leaves.
5  His agent raked a quarter off everything he earned this time.
6  She raked the soil over to loosen the weeds.
7  The two scouts, swimming across the river, managed to keep under as the enemy's searchlight raked the surface.
8  He raked the dead leaves together every morning.