How to Use rake in in a Sentence

rake in

phrasal verb
Definition of rake innext
  • The sale raked in at least $45 million in less than a week.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 July 2023
  • 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
  • That’s the largest sum the foundation has raked in since it got started in 2017.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The 18 Ohio betting apps raked in $3.7 billion, so almost all of it.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, the business raked in $380 million in net revenue.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune Europe, 22 June 2024
  • The state is raking in half a billion dollars a year in taxes.
    — Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The nearly three hour interview raked in more than 70M views in less than five months.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 June 2024
  • Ziff adds that the agencies are raking in money as a quasi-landlord.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • 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
  • Drake, too, raked in millions of streams and Instagram views for his own missives.
    — TIME, 7 May 2024
  • 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
  • The film raked in $162 million at the box office during its opening weekend.
    — Maressa Brown, Parents, 25 July 2023
  • In all, Manton raked in some $17 million (in today’s dollars) from his schemes.
    — Time, 25 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • All 25 lots for up sale (one work was withdrawn) were bought, with 21 raking in sales within or above their target range.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
  • 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
  • The operation raked in money at a rate that surprised Mr. Lu.
    — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social just raked in a solid chunk of change.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 2 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, she’s raked in tens of thousands on OnlyFans.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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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