How to Use rake up in a Sentence

rake up

verb

• Let the users make the pages, then rake up all the money.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2021
• Prepare the ground with a hoe and rake up the last of the winter leaves and needles.
  — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• Don’t be so quick to rake up and dispose of dead plant matter.
  — Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2020
• At least twice a week, rake up any bird droppings, spilled seeds, or hulls from underneath the feeders; bag them up and trash them.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2021
• Sunday is shaping up to be a good day for Atlanta residents to rake up fall leaves.
  — Tyler Wilkins, ajc, 20 Nov. 2021
• What a relief not to have to rake up leaves with yellow jacket-filled, rotting apples.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Go the extra step and rake up leaves, remove weeds and add a splash of color by planting blooming flowers.
  — Taylor Walcik, Dallas News, 5 June 2022
• The most effective treatment to reduce the impact of bedstraw stickers is to rake up the sticky brown wads of the plant that still are setting in the shrub border and the edge of the lawn.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 7 May 2021
• Another tip from the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is to rake up seed hulls and other waste located under your feeders — the old food on the ground can make birds sick, too.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2024
• Hand rakes can clean tight spaces, which is especially handy when trying to rake up thin pine needles, which have a tendency to pile up in small nooks and crannies.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• However, in recent years, Wistron had raked up a few controversies.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 2 May 2023
• While the dealer raked up the house’s winnings, sorting and stacking the many chips, a few of the other players who’d lost money—although not nearly as much as B.T.—placed a consoling palm on his shoulder, as if thanking him for the ride.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• If any of your trees, shrubs or perennials had serious insect or disease problems during the growing season, rake up those leaves and dispose of them outside your yard.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• Egyptian vultures have also been observed wielding twigs to rake up tufts of wool from sheep shearing pens and repurposing the wool as nest insulation.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• Specialized tractors tirelessly rake up the brown weed clusters that litter the beaches, yet by each following morning, the seaweed tends to return.
  — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 1 May 2023
• Afterward rake up sod manually with a square shovel or pitchfork.
  — oregonlive, 13 July 2020
• Venus will also make an awkward angle to Chiron in your home sector, however, which could rake up some uncomfortable feelings for you.
  — Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
• Many homeowners took advantage of Saturday's dry weather to rake up their remaining leaves.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2021
• From full coverage suits to itsy-bitsy bikinis that won't give you crazy tan lines from those hours of playing beach volleyball, take a look at these best swimsuit brands that'll rake up major likes on Instagram and TikTok this summer.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 30 Jan. 2023
• The pesky microalgae often washes up from May through October, when water temperatures rise, but many major resorts are diligent about raking up the seaweed each morning.
  — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2024
• Meanwhile, President Joe Biden won the state's Democratic primary in a landslide earlier this evening, raking up 30 delegates.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• Before Wednesday, the assumption was that McConnell was insisting Democrats use budget reconciliation as part of some plan to derail their agenda or at least rake up material for 2022 attack ads.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024