RACK in a Sentence

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For RACK, below is one of 49 sentences:
But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.

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 Meanings and Examples of RACK
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rack
 n.  framework for holding objects
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Melanie snatched a folded towel from the washstand rack and pressed it against his streaming shoulder and he smiled up weakly, reassuringly into her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies on a newspaper spread on the rack in the oven.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
4  Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew darker with the shadows of night; no sign of the ship could be seen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
5  The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed, as they stood upright against the forward bulkhead.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
6  The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkard's arm against the panel; Starbuck seemed wrestling with an angel; but turning from the door, he placed the death-tube in its rack, and left the place.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
7  Steeped in misery and despair as he was, merely to walk down the street was to be put upon the rack.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and binds her fast.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CLEVER HANS
9  But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
10  Medeah was standing at the rack, eating his hay.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch.
11  It's very well, he's in the rack.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
12  The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, extending the whole length on one side.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
13  I would not have trusted her with the rack itself, while that furious look lasted.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
14  Seeing his hat on the rack, she shuddered with aversion.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 29
15  Then he suddenly rolled them all into a gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  John selected a card from the rack.
2  Hang your coat and hat on the rack over there.
3  Lower rates mean that firms are more likely to rack up profits in the coming months.
4  Invert the cake onto a cooling rack.
5  We fixed the canoe onto the car's roof rack.
6  Remove the cakes from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
7  He hung his mackintosh and hat on the rack in the comfortable square hall and turned to her for direction.
8  The newspapers were arranged on a rack.
9  Gannett, the nation's most predatory newspaper conglomerate, is still trying to take over the rack distribution business.
10  Not only did Miss Minchin upbraid Ermengarde for her disobedience, but she hung her up by her braids from a coat rack in the classroom.
11  This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excites them agreeably.
12  My racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasures excite them agreeably.
13  Even at the end, when cancer racked his body, he was calm and cheerful.
14  He racked all the bottles of wine after dinner.
15  Her stroke was a major one, and in the aftermath she was racked by hysterical screaming.