"raked" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as either a verb meaning to comb through something with a tool, or as an adjective meaning having a sharp angle or peak. Example sentence: She carefully raked through the sand, eager to find a lost shell.
The footage and fall-out have been raked to within an inch of their lives for clues as to the cause of the disagreement, the front-running theory so far being that Jay Z wanted to go to Rihanna's after party (Rihanna of all people! My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
Grinning wildly, Meilutyte perched on the lane rope and lifted her arms wide to the 17,000 roaring fans in the steeply raked wings of seating.
The town is as steeply raked as an amphitheatre, and my abiding memory is of scaling its steps and winding roads with all our stuff, then checking into a hotel attractively situated at the point where our legs gave out.
Mosques were blasted with rockets, ancient bath-houses ransacked and houses raked by machinegun fire.
Inevitably, many books have raked over the lessons of Enron, WorldCom and other failures, trying to explain what went wrong.Some of the leadership books are written (or ghost-written) by the likes of Rudy Giuliani or Jack Welch, to describe the secrets of their success.
But its commander lay dead in the dirt beside him, the troops were fleeing and, from a mud building in front, the 26-year-old British officer was being raked by Taliban fire.His response, for which Lieutenant Illingworth received Britain's second-highest award for gallantry, was to grab the dead Afghan's grenade-launcher and fight back.
On February 9th he stepped out of it unscathed after another assassination attempt, in which the car was hit by an anti-tank grenade and raked with automatic-rifle fire.Had Mr Shevardnadze been driving something less robust, the volatile Caucasus region might be facing two presidential elections next month instead of just one.
Wall Street investment banks raked in fees for issuing yet more Argentine bonds even as some of their analysts were privately gloomy about the country.
For Mr Kim to allow such wide-ranging privileges suggests how keen he was to use the currency Mr Jang raked in until it was clear how much was being kept back.The potential sums involved are large.
David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, was wont to bemoan "broken Britain", mired in moral degeneracy, with high rates of teenage pregnancy, low rates of marriage and other less quantifiable breakdowns in the civilised scheme of things.Such antediluvian worries were raked over again on July 13th when Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, called for an official endorsement of marriage.
In 2002, says the report, estate agents raked in fees of £2.5 billion.
