How to Use rake in in a Sentence

rake in

verb
  • Last season also raked in a record number of fan votes.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 17 June 2026
  • Last season also raked in a record number of fan votes.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 May 2026
  • The resulting fraud schemes raked in millions.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Producing more oil would seem like an obvious way to rake in more cash, now that prices have spiked.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Boebert challenger keeps raking in cash.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2026
  • At one point, her singing raked in more than a million views to her Instagram profile.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That’s far more than the prior year and without even counting all the money raked in by his family.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
  • Over the years, Comcast has raked in billions in profit from its media holdings.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Michael is still raking in millions of dollars day by day at the box office, but the specter of what the movie might have been still hangs over its head.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • Toss in the other four games and TNT could rake in a significant chunk of change.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Last year Pupu raked in more than RMB 30 billion (approx.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 15 June 2026
  • Yet the nation’s largest companies are raking in record profits, and its stock market is hitting all-time highs.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • Many are boomers raking in sizable pension payments made possible by stock market gains.
    — Sam Klebanov, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The humble rom-com is never going to rake in the cash that major IP and superhero films do.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Demand is rising in Asia while Russia is raking in billions of dollars.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Demand is rising in Asia while Russia is raking in billions of dollars.
    — Anton L. Delgado, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Some bettors are now using the same strategy to rake in thousands of dollars from online prediction sites.
    — Evan Gorelick, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And he’s raked in well over a million dollars over the last two years through product reviews, advertisements, and brand partnerships.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • Local eateries across Charlotte keep raking in the accolades.
    — Evan Moore may 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
  • The president’s portfolio is also raking in cash in large part thanks to merchandising.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • His TikTok channel gained tens of thousands of subscribers and began raking in millions of views every month.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Mar-a-Lago raked in $77 million, up from $50 million in 2024.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 July 2026
  • That year, top city officials raked in more substantial raises than municipal employees at the bottom of the pay scale.
    — Idaho Statesman, 28 May 2026
  • Last year, screenings for several music documentaries and concert films were able to rake in a couple of million dollars at the box office.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The message seems to be that Hollywood is a terrible place where people do awful things to one another, while also raking in lots of money.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Talarico raking in campaign funds Talarico has proven successful at raising funds.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • How can this be, when teams like the Pirates and Marlins relentlessly cry poor, despite raking in huge amounts of revenue sharing dollars?
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Less than a day before the layoffs were announced, Meta unveiled a new stock program for top executives that could rake in nearly a billion dollars each over the next five years.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
  • For 2026, the box office has raked in just over $3 billion through Sunday, according to Comscore.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 13 May 2026

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