How to Use rake in in a Sentence
rake in
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The sale raked in at least $45 million in less than a week.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 July 2023
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The more views and ad money a YouTube video rakes in, the more money the creator can get.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
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That’s the largest sum the foundation has raked in since it got started in 2017.
—Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
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The 18 Ohio betting apps raked in $3.7 billion, so almost all of it.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
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Last year, the business raked in $380 million in net revenue.
—Alena Botros, Fortune Europe, 22 June 2024
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The state is raking in half a billion dollars a year in taxes.
—Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
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The nearly three hour interview raked in more than 70M views in less than five months.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 June 2024
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Ziff adds that the agencies are raking in money as a quasi-landlord.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 June 2023
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The two have raked in tens of billions of dollars in revenue for the Danish drugmaker so far.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune Asia, 19 June 2024
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Drake, too, raked in millions of streams and Instagram views for his own missives.
—TIME, 7 May 2024
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While the price wasn’t revealed in a joint press release, Fortune reports that Kiss raked in upwards of $300 million in the sale.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
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The film raked in $162 million at the box office during its opening weekend.
—Maressa Brown, Parents, 25 July 2023
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In all, Manton raked in some $17 million (in today’s dollars) from his schemes.
—Time, 25 July 2023
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But even if everyone’s cars are nestled up next to each other, Musk is still raking in the big bucks.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
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The film has raked in nearly $1.5 billion worldwide since its release last May, and is the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. and 12th-highest in the world.
—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
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All 25 lots for up sale (one work was withdrawn) were bought, with 21 raking in sales within or above their target range.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
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Over the last decade, the short-term rental industry in the United States has raked in an astounding $33 billion in revenue.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
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The operation raked in money at a rate that surprised Mr. Lu.
—Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
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Ogburn noted that the city doesn’t rake in a substantial amount of revenue from these sales, either.
—Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
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The Sacklers are estimated to have raked in more than $10 billion from opioid sales in the years after.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
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Ash Farley, a high school senior in New York, says teens are well aware platforms are raking in their data.
—Jasper Davidoff, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2024
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First came latte makeup, which exploded on TikTok and has raked in over 220 million views in the past few weeks.
—Elle Turner, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
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The now-classic first film raked in over $467 million at the time and became one of the year’s most profitable theatrical releases.
—Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
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OpenAI's chatbot rakes in over half of the monthly users who tap into the tools considered in the study (1.67 billion out of 3 billion).
—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
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The company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social just raked in a solid chunk of change.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 2 July 2024
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The first batch of shoes went on sale in May, reportedly raking in $437 million; a second batch went on sale in August.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
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According to reports, the Prince of Wales raked in $30.4 million in his first full year under his new title, Duke of Cornwall.
—Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 24 July 2024
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At that point, the show had raked in 10 Emmys, the Fab Five’s contracts were ending, and each member was juggling their own business ventures and side projects.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
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Meanwhile, she’s raked in tens of thousands on OnlyFans.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
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Congestion pricing was planned to come into effect on June 30, and it was expected to rake in $1 billion a year in toll revenue.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
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