How To Use rake up In A Sentence
- You tend to dwell on the past and rake up old issues which open old wounds and bring fresh pain in relationships.
- He would accelerate, then pull the handbrake up and then he would have to keep really good control of the steering wheel as the car spun round.
- You could rake up the rubbish but a leaf blower would make much lighter work of it. The Sun
- I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no piece justificative more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the Quarterly Review for July, Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
- She helped her father to rake up the dried grass into piles.
- Well Miss Mollie I had a good laugh at the Sergt Maj When I told him what you wrotehe is such a modest young man, it made him blush. he is perfectly carried a way and if you send many more such messages to him he will go up the Spot. but I have not much fears about you & his Lordship [unclear: getting] married for this reason. he is so very diffident and your shiness of man; Will make it a matter of impossibility to get up a match With out calling in the Third person & of course that Will be my self, of course, and of course, you Will find out that I will do all in my Power to brake up the match as I have an Intrist in your future Welfare myself. Augusta County: James H. Blakemore to Mary Anna Sibert, September 11, 1864
- I suppose that, at the beginning of this chapter, one had the notion that, by hard scratching through musty old records we might rake up vague, more than doubtful data, distortable into what's called evidence of unrecognized worlds or constructions of planetary size -- The Book of the Damned
- She helped her father to rake up the dried grass into piles.
- I don't think it necessary to rake up their old quarrels.
- Than sone after was callid a set a parliament, wherynne alle the comoens were aggreed, and rightfully electe hym as heire apparent of England, nought to procede in any other matiers till that were graunted by the lordes, whereto the kyng and lordes wold not consent nor graunte, but anon brake up the parliamente. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
