Pete Seeger

I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

American Musician

Eugene Chadbourne

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

American Composer

Pete Doherty

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

English Musician

Mahathir Mohamad

If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.

Malaysian Politician

Gavin Creel

I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.

American Actor

Chuck Close

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

American Artist

Mithun Chakraborty

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Indian Actor

Henny Youngman

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

American Comedian

Felix Dennis

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

British Publisher

Thomas Babington Macaulay

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

British Poet

Use this sense of 'rake' when discussing garden work or yard cleanup.

Gardening Context

While traditional rakes had metal parts, they can also be made of plastic or wood.

Not Always Metal

'Rake' as a verb often involves a pulling motion, whether literal or figurative.

Physical Action

The verb 'rake' can also mean to gather things other than leaves, like profits or information.

Figurative Gathering

Can refer to searching through a large amount of something carefully.

Combing Through

This meaning is old-fashioned and mainly found in historical or literary works.

Outdated Use

This use often implies disapproval or criticism of the person's lifestyle.

Negative Connotation

This personification of 'rake' is often associated with famous historical figures known for excess.

Historical Characters

To 'rake over' in this sense is not a physical action but a way to describe thorough looking.

Figurative Glance

Used to convey someone quickly assessing a situation or a person.

Quick Assessment

 This is the flat floor configuration. You notice that there is no proscenium, the balconies have been raised up, there are no seats, the floor in the auditorium is flat. The first configuration is easy to understand. The balconies come down, you see that the orchestra begins to have a rake that's frontal towards the end stage,

Joshua Prince-Ramus:...

 that there's no proscenium the balconies have been raised up there are no seats the floor and the auditorium is flat the first configuration is easy to understand the balconies come down you see that the orchestra begins to have a rake that's frontal towards the end stage and the seats come in the third

Building a theater that...

 on their tables they're trying to feed their families but with the bigger criminal syndicates they're raking in the money malaika realized that this trade was more global than she'd assumed when you're filming in a wildlife market in guangzhou one month and then back home in your country seeing these

Going Undercover to Save...

 at all hours of the day. Early in the morning, sunlight rakes the facades, sharpening shadows, and at night, lamplight segments the buildings into hundreds of distinct areas, balconies and windows and arcades, each one a separate pocket of visual activity.

Why glass towers are bad...

 will have a look at a couple but like I said the main factor to a lot of the reason why species are going extinct is due to habitat loss unfortunately because of us because of us as humans raking the environment what's making that noise can you hear that

Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...

 Let me address some questions about progress that no doubt have occurred to many of you. First, isn't it good to be pessimistic to safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak truth to power? Well, not exactly. It's good to be accurate.

Is the world getting...

 post advertisements on websites that are commonly miskeyed, and then they sit back and rake in millions banking on the fact that you're visiting something like gmale.com or mikerowesoft.com. It just seems kind of silly, doesn't it? How about this?

We should aim for...

 the first process happens here at the inlet works using these screens large lumps like bricks wood rags a rake towels once collected these large objects we all be washed and sent to a landfill sites nearby they even had half a car

Where Does Your Sewage...

 Over the next three weeks, workers rake the seeds regularly to ensure they dry evenly. Once the coffee beans are dry, a truck takes them to a nearby mill with several specialized machines.

The life cycle of a cup...

 returns to the world when it was raking and squeezing his ship butts moving it's loud