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Sentence Examples For safety's sake, use an emery cloth to sand the cut edges of your newly shortened rake. If you have an acid soil, a good way to rectify the situation is to rake lime into the ground in late winter. Carefully rake leaves away from clumps of snowdrops and aconites, replanting any that have been lifted by frost. They could well afford it, given the umpteen millions they rake in from the motoring public. Mix a 2-to 3-inch layer of organic mulch into the soil, then level the planting area with a rake. However, I did read somewhere that you can rip up the dead grass, with a metal rake, and reseed. Loosen the soil with a rake to aerate it and remove any weeds and small stones. Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage. The rake or dethatcher will create shallow grooves in the soil which will catch the new grass seed that you spread. A spring tine or garden rake is all that is needed for the job but allow a good amount of time, especially if the lawn is large. With a fine-toothed hacksaw, cut off as many tines as needed for the rake to fit between your plants. To prepare a surface for planting, use a flat-head rake to clear away pebbles and other debris and to smooth out terrain. Occasionally she needs to touch up the rake with a little extra glue, but that's less expensive than purchasing a new rake. Nowadays, women think that they cannot so much as rake a few leaves without adorning themselves in a pair of pants. Now entirely awake, Asa grabbed a comb off the desk and began to rake it through her long, dripping brown hair. The beautiful occupants of the room looked up at Amy and I, and I felt their astonished eyes rake over my body. But there was that guy who was thin as a rake and eat several Big Macs a day. Katy ducked behind John, then peered around him to see an old man with yellowing eyes and white hair, with a bent back and thin as a rake. Soon she will realise that no matter how much the old boy eats he stays thin as a rake. My friend was only 14 and was thin as a rake with tell tale signs of drug abuse which I didn't know then. Show More Sentences The companies then do the expensive but scientifically easy trials and rake in all the money. You've got to have a lot of time to put into investing in stocks in order to do it right and rake the money in. The people in the stands are happy, the athletes win fat contracts, and the owners rake in the money. What I said was that as far as I was concerned I was not going to rake over the past. Willoughby is a rake, seducing women without thinking of either their feelings or the consequences of his actions. Perhaps more surprisingly, Lucio, the rake and libertine, also sees the value of chastity. Other characters include Hellena, Florinda's sister, and Willmore, a young rake who falls in love with her. His brother, after living the dissolute life of a rake, had fled England at the end of the war to escape his debts. To do this, cut 6 inches off the first shingle of the second course at the rake of the slope. I put the rake in the shed, emptied the sawdust in the brush in back of the house, and parked the wheelbarrow in front of the steps. If you rake windrows to dry out any stems on the bottom, leaves are apt to crumble and fall away, leaving just sticks for hay. With the sail laying down, rake sail back until the foot of the sail is touching the tail of the board. You tend to dwell on the past and rake up old issues which open old wounds and bring fresh pain in relationships. We should not rake the current religious bias regnant in America today as necessarily universal for all cultures. In a small house with a tall actor, the rake and actor's frame easily manage to blot out a lot of the action. Go over your lawn with a springbok rake and you'll be surprised how much there is. When he is not exchanging repartee directly with his beloved, Tom affects the cynicism of a full-blown Restoration rake. Scratch up the surface of any bare patches in the lawn using a garden fork or metal rake. I did consider having a quick rake around to see if anything significant was lying around, but thought better of it. The Wild Irish boy assumes the role of a roistering English rake, while Armida plays the part of an Italian diva. Show More Sentences Its forks were shorter than a usual chopper, but had a greater angle of rake. Rent a power rake to cut through heavy thatch and runners of grasses such as Bermudagrass. Females cause significant tree damage when they rake back the bark of twigs to lay their fertilized eggs. If dethatching is required, use an iron rake or a thatch rake to cut through and rake off thatch, and to scarify the surface. Use either a wire-tined rake or hire an electric or petrol scarifier from a DIY centre. Dig in some compost or well-rotted horse manure and rake level, removing any large stones. The Fellows use draft horses to spread manure, rake hay, and move fences, water, firewood and hay around the farm. Use a rake to remove winter debris, break up small amounts of thatch and lift the grass leaves and weed stems. Besides raking leaves up, you want to rake deep into the soil to remove thatch. It's amazing how much thatch you can rake out of a lawn if you do it every two or three years. Rent a power rake and coring machine to remove thatch and improve air and water circulation around roots of Bermuda grass. We tend to use the same few tools spade, fork, rake, trowel, secateurs and watering can throughout our gardening careers. Kill weeds with glyphosate herbicide, pull them by hand, or chop them with a hoe or mattock and rake them up. We sand-rakers are a tight group and while we could rake a mean sand pit in ten seconds, we could never throw anything. If you have a 20-percent stand, why start over and destroy what you have by using a tiller or power rake to prepare the soil? Gangsters, pumped up with adrenaline, rake bank interiors and nearby storefronts with tommy guns. Except for changing forks to get a longer rake, none of your other suggestions will help me eliminate the shimmy unless I get a new frame. The end of the trench should have a deeper area which is used to rake hot ash and embers into. To grow poppies, simply cultivate the area, rake smooth and moisten the soil. For potholes or wide cracks, shovel packaged blacktop into a well-cleaned hole and then use an iron rake to level large patches. Show More Sentences The sight of his own unacknowledged children brings the rake of the title closer to his reform. Its quality of the plain and unadorned could rake the form of words only as in the various text altarpieces illustrated here. The new management's first task in preparing the ground was to rake through a big file of unresolved customer complaints. Each rake comprised of three articulated vehicles, and was vestibuled throughout. Barry charged out of his corner and continued to rake Steve with left hooks to the body but the punches were becoming noticeably slower. A tall, thin rake of a Wearsider with carroty hair and a ginger moustache, he is a man who clearly loves his job. The sofa's four rear legs have the incurving rake typically seen on Salem chairs but rarely on sofas. For a spring cover crop to be tilled under in early summer, hand broadcast clover or Austrian field pea seed, and lightly rake it into the soil. I carry a rake, patrolling one flank of the fire, making sure it doesn't jump a pre-dug fire line. An emaciated, rake of a lackey with crowns on his lapels kept ushering supplicants and victims into the Secretary's panelled office. They could well afford it, given the millions they rake in from the motoring public. Operators would rather rake the pot than charge per hand, because they can take out more money. Provide high-quality small-scale tools such as trowel, cultivator, rake, and hoe. By the time he had show us drawing down, controlled bending, fullering, flatting in mild steel, I was the proud owner of a fire rake. The dancers seemed like isolated figures against the cyclorama and the rake. You'll still have to sweep or rake any leaves off the lawn, and keep drains and gullies clear. Remove sticks, rocks, and other debris, and rake the tops of the beds smooth and flat. Aside from the usual babysitting gig, there are other ways to rake in the bucks you need to buy a new computer. The next 10 times after that, the sheer repetition made it funny again, like the famous Simpsons rake joke. You can even bring your husband or boyfriend to caddy for you, provided you still have an Eastern Star caddy on the team to carry the bag and rake the bunkers. Show More Sentences Richard went around to the back to get a rake and wheelbarrow. Again the men were coerced under once more, and made to endure yet another rake along the keel of the ship, where lurked the treacherous gatherings of barnacles. Use a tarp to collect trimmings or a rake to clean up afterward. They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake. Well, in presidential politics, candidates are starting to rake in important endorsements, one frontrunner seemingly building a campaign brick by brick. She worked slowly and carefully at first, then picked up speed, using her claws to rake the hair into position, then trimming it with rapid snips of the scissors. John Wilkes writes brilliantly in defence of press freedom to report on Parliament, only to be discredited by a dirty poem written as a young rake. Given the amount of money stores rake in from gift lists, you would have thought they would have treated those customers with a little more appreciation. I climbed around under the tree, dragging the rake along with me. But it comes away pretty easily if you go at them with a sturdy rake. On the wall behind the three people there is a hayfork and rake. But while the rich rake it in, the poor continue to lose their jobs. But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa. At least with a rake you can scooch all the leaves into one big pile. Marc dressed in black, looking thin as a rake and white as a sheet. He was very tall, about six foot two, and as thin as a rake. I mean for a professional cricketer to slide his foot way back in line with his stumps and then rake across them there's something either very unco or very illicit going on. He was as thin as a rake, and was taller than most men at that age. They don't want to rake over old coals or engage in mudslinging but they stand by their investigation and are quite happy for work to be looked at and let the public judge it. He placed his bag down on the dark ground and began to rake through it. Show More Sentences Garret fought the urge to squirm as he felt her eyes rake over him. I must keep her sweet so that she doesn't rake my scalp with the comb. The sail plan shows masts with a sharp rake, nicely steeved bowsprit, stub top-mast on the main, no spreaders, jumper struts nor permanent back-stays. Work in small sections, and then remove the debris with a rake. She tried not to be flattered, knowing this rake could talk a dog off a meat wagon. It includes a kneeling cushion, stool, transplanter, trowel, rake, digger, small fork, sprayer and gloves. My bun trolley rolls downstage if there is a rake on it and I end up chasing after it as the trolley covers my chest. Turn an old wooden rake into a hanging rail by fixing it to a wall, head-side up. The boy on the rake went to and fro, up and down across the stubbled field, trying to salvage every wisp. When the turves are laid, firm them down gently by laying a plank on top of them and tapping it with a rubber mallet or the back of a rake. To avoid this, rake the soil around affected trees in winter so exposed sawflies are killed by frost. Another tool for small areas is called a cavex rake, or thatch rake. These hand tools are fine for a small plot. The oldest piece in the store was a wooden-handled de-thatching rake, which was bracketed way up near the rafters. The solution is to rip it out with a dethatching rake or dethatching machine with rotating vertical blades. He didn't earn much, but the company seemed to rake in money hand over fist. Rochester's venality led to an early death, and he was later frequently invoked as the exemplar of a Restoration rake. During every beer event, Birch and Barley and ChurchKey print special casting cards listing the featured beers, with a space to rake notes. Alas, geriatrics and convalescent homes, however regal, don't rake it in like moneyed metrosexuals. Then I levelled the sand and lightly packed soil with the rake and shovel and put in a star picket to indicate where it was. He exposed a row of teeth that were sharp and gapped like a thatcher's rake. Show More Sentences After being thus secured the surface was beaten flat and, in the case of straw thatch was combed down with a thatcher's rake. A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake. Use a wide bamboo or metal leaf rake to gather up all the thatch ripped out by the verticutter. To control apple scab infection, rake up leaves that look diseased and prune out shoots showing signs of scabbiness. Lightly rake over the soil to create a crumbly surface and then sow the seed evenly and gently rake in. I'm not going to rake over old coals but let's say that the sending-off didn't help us. Prepare seedbeds in the kitchen garden, breaking large lumps of soil down with a fork, then using a rake to create a fine tilth. Her tutor Septimus Hodge is honey-tongued rake and, crucially for the story, a friend of Lord Byron. Thieves posing as an electronics firm used the address of a Glasgow cake shop to rake in a six-figure sum. For through holes, the chamfer is ground with a cutting rake that throws the chips ahead of the tap into the core hole. Fat-cat Euro MPs are set to rake in a massive pounds 1 million during their five years in office. To make your ponytail party-perf, prep your mane with texturizer and rake it back mid-height like Selena Gomez. Purdy is in his mid 70s now, an impeccably polite, nearly dressed man, thin as a rake, with big startled eyes. Verbal paraphasia is the substitution of a word with a related meaning, such as rake for shovel. For larger lawns, rent a dethatcher, or power rake, from a local equipment rental company. Before seeding a large area, use a power rake or dethatcher to thin grass and remove thatch. I hide behind a photocopier, peeping out of a window in case they see me but they only seem to want to rake through the bins. It's a slap in the face also to those poor graduate nurses expected to work for pittance while those at the top rake it in. That combination enables us to do things with the top rake of an insert that we weren't able to do years ago. These are hot times for flashlights as consumers ditch their outdated models for newer ones, presenting an excellent opportunity for retailers like you to rake in the profits. Show More Sentences For example, in the early nineties he would rake in a modest success with Carnosaur, a direct rip-off of Spielberg's blockbuster hit Jurassic Park. Jason taught me the difference between a V-ripper and a subsoiler, explained the elegance of a circular hay rake and the miracle of a rotary cultivator. Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman, insisted the roof be lowered one inch, the wind-shield and backlight be given more rake, and the tumblehome increased. In autumn, spike the lawn to aerate it, rake out old dead grass and topdress with compost then feed with low nitrogen lawn feed to toughen grass up for the winter. After the thatch is secured on the roof, it is usual in England to make the surface flat and even by beating and combing. This is generally done with a thatcher's rake. Use a thatch rake that has specially designed blades instead of normal tines. You'll need some elbow grease to work the rake into the lawn and remove the thatch. He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes. A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake. Or rent a power rake or vertical mower. He takes the rake from my hands and combs it through the Zoysia grass. You can rake it on brush, bang it on the ground, or just jiggle it to make the realistic sounds of bucks engaged in light sparring or an all-out war. The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior. Turning hay, when needed, originally was done by hand with a fork or rake. During the drying period, which can take several days, the process is usually sped up by turning the cut hay over with a hay rake or spreading it out with a tedder. While you can remove thatch from small areas with a metal garden rake or hand cultivator, you ought to rent a dethatcher for working over large areas of grass. Beetroots and carrots can be given the cloche treatment, too, and if you have space in a cold frame scatter carrot seed on the surface, lightly rake it in and shut the lid. Since dethatching with this rake requires muscle power and perseverance, if you have a large lawn you might want to rent a power dethatcher instead. Rake to maintain a clean lawn, doing an especially thorough job at the end of the growing season to reduce thatch. The Rake points to this very long, very detailed Paul Auster analysis that I too will have to read later. Rake over and re-seed bare patches on the lawn and sow new lawns by the end of September. Buck looked at Dr. Rake and Philip whose faces were as cold as stone. Show More Sentences Rake soil first to a fine tilth and don't forget to label the rows. Rake and level tilled soil, then roll to make a firm seedbed. The first is via Foxes Tarn to the East of Scafell summit, and the second is via Lord's Rake and the West Wall traverse. The water seeping from the surrounding moorland Rake Dike is the source of the River Holme. The classic ascent via Lord's Rake path from Wastwater follows the main Scafell Pike footpath to Hollow Stones, then up to Lord's Rake. During a CBI Scotland event attended by Cameron, businessman Mike Rake criticised him for creating uncertainty about EU membership. Bennett, of Condron Road, Litherland and Hutchins, of Muttocks Rake, Seaforth, denied conspiring to commit actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice. In addition, concerns were raised by Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT Group, Sir Terry Leahy, Chairman of Tesco and by Sir Christopher Gent, Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline. Cottage Rake was trained in Ireland by Vincent O'Brien, and his successes helped to popularise the Gold Cup, and the Festival itself, with the Irish public. The block that was bridged across the head of Lord's Rake collapsed into the gully in July 2016, leaving several small unstable blocks behind, which can be avoided with care. Examples from Classical Literature They had a forward rake to increase by the overhang the difficulty of escalading them. The rake tears the bushes so, and the berries have to be put through a fanning mill twice to free them from leaves and rubbish. On the hay-slews we had to prime the rake with old hay 'fore we could make a windrow. But you rake a match to light the candle, and that little bit of a noise will fetch him. Oh, well rake the island with a fine-tooth comb, if we have to, cried Roger. He leaned upon his rake looking after her, his gray eyes gathered into an incomprehensive squint. The tedder should be used freely in getting the hay ready to rake, as at that season of the year it dries slowly. Keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake. He yelled, jumping into the air and waving his hay rake to attract additional attention. No light gleams from a friendly window, only the shadowy form of a hay rake left out by some farmer suggests human companionship. As it chanced, however, seeing out of only one eye, he backed upon the handle of a hay rake which was leaning against the wall. The self-binding harvester or the hay rake is only used a few weeks, or perhaps more often only a few days, each year. Besides, they can rake us with bullets from ambush, while we're climbing up the ridge. Then dig the bed up, deeply, and add some well-rotted manure, rake smoothly and replant. After 1854 it was taken on deck from stem-head to sternpost, and certain deductions made for rake. Built for length on deck, there was no necessity for shortening up the water-line, and her sternpost had no very great rake. In 1858 the machine was further improved by substituting an automatic rake for the raker on the machine. I should never have known him, dressed in corduroy, and with a rake over his shoulder. There can scarcely be a new theory devised, for the human mind has long since gone over the whole ground with plowshare and rake. He ordered one of his men to take a cartful of stones and a rake and to set off to mend the road, which was to be done as follows. Show More Sentences It was touching, and positively worthy of tears, to see her rake out a bed of fresh and glowing coals, and proceed to broil the mackerel. To rake over the contents of an ash-pit, is not to study geology. The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been. Perhaps he got the feeling of being a rake more from his wife's rage and amazement than from any experiences of his own. Men some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake. When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool house, but the sugar he carried in to Marilla. And the cook said, 'Yes, you may go, but be back again in half an hour's time, to rake out the ashes. By mid-spring, you should be able to rake out any remaining moss and oversow bare patches with grass seed. He was as fresh as a collard and as ingenuous as a hay rake. What security, that your rake will not follow you to the world's end? To get the lawn ready for spring, rake up any dead leaves and sweep any worm casts with besom. Scarification can be done with a spring-tine rake by vigorously pulling it through the grass. We rake the grass, and then, gilding refined gold, we sweep it. This clerical rake would, if he could, Gothicize this nation of freemen. A horse went back and forth, drawing a horse rake behind him. When the spading has been done, then use your rake and spare it not. When the soil is dry enough for it to freely break up, rake the surface to give a suitable tilth. It's also a good time to roll out new turf, right, Prepare ground well, removing all weeds, and rake to a fine tilth before laying new turf. Nobody was narrow-minded enough to rake up against her the half-forgotten facts of her father's past and her own origin. Handling is great and the 1200T is surprisingly agile, thanks to its short wheelbase and steepish fork rake. Show More Sentences Every woman not so much a rake at heart, as an optimist, because they don't think. Remove stones and debris and rake to create a smooth surface and a fine, crumbly texture. So are many that rake dunghills.If you haue any suit, moue it in Court. In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry. Then one man has a rake too heavy for him, and another a prong too light. And what must that child be, who prefers the rake to a father? The rig is high-modulus carbon with rod shrouds and EC6 rigging is optional along with an hydraulic forestay to adjust rake. Now he saw that it was my purpose to rake this Halakazi fire with another hand than his, and to save his hand from the burning, and he thanked me. This multi-function dredge has multiple interchangeable tool options, including an excavator bucket, a cutter basket with dredging pump, a weed rake, and a pile driver. The tears flowed with every rake, and so did the fervent execrations. He doesn't even have to rake his own bunkers and I bet he's never been hounded out of a clubhouse by some curmudgeon for wearing the wrong type of boxers. Germinating Scatter by hand, rake in lightly and water thoroughly. Rake and press combined would be preferable, but would not object to its taking the hay in the windrow. The new deal will see him release his debut solo album on Earache Records under the project name of Old Rake. I suppose the Pilgrim and the Rake are contrasted with each other. Rake up the leaves, and add everything of this kind to the compost heap. But Moore pulled Regency Rake out of the Vincent O'Brien County Hurdle at Saturday's five-day acceptance stage. Rake the soil to a fine tilth and make some drills 12mm deep. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of rake? Words that rhyme with rake What is the past tense of rake? What is the plural of rake? What is the adverb for rake? What is the adjective for rake? What is the noun for rake? Translations for rake Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words RAK Rajputs rajputana Rajput Rajpoot Rajkumar Rake raked rakehell Rakel rake-off raker 4-letter Words Starting With r ra rak