Sentence examples for rake over from inspiring English sources
verb
To discuss something unpleasant from the past.
Rake over gently and give a gentle water in.
Meanwhile, let's not rake over the past.
Scavengers rake over debris before it is washed downhill.
Tonight BBC4 will rake over the boring controversy about these boring bricks one more boring time.
"We simply don't want to rake over the dust and ashes of the past".
Rake over their records and you will turn up episodes of political hackery and opinions that will make you recoil.
His teammates, many of them veterans, did not like seeing Green raked over, either.
"Just when you think his life has been thoroughly raked over, up pops another lover.
AS THE embers of this month's mid-term elections are raked over, a new conventional wisdom is emerging in Washington, DC.
If this case must be raked over again, it's good to see a woman tackling the topic.
All that and more will be raked over before Manchester United and Liverpool meet once again on Sunday afternoon.
