Sentence examples for try to rack from inspiring English sources

Skaters try to rack up the points move by move, especially in the jumps.

Mr. Bush is not the first to use a bus tour to try to rack up good will in the heartland.

You invite your friends to join your band and try to rack up better scores than the other rock bands.

He started hitting bars, clubs, and internet dating sites to try to rack up his number.

As she quite beautifully put it herself, she could try to rack her brains but she "ain't got much to rack".

During Christie's campaign for reelection last year, the staffers who dealt with mayors in their government jobs were enlisted in a "voluntary" campaign to try to rack up Democratic endorsements -- part of Christie's effort to buff his national image in preparation for a possible 2016 presidential run.

At assemblies he encourages students to choose classes that are challenging but manageable, rather than trying to rack up A.P.'s.

Realizing that Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker were the focal points of the Celtics' offense, he put less emphasis on trying to rack up statistics and on outplaying the opposing point guard.

3. The original "Supermarket Sweep" (1965-67), in which contestants dashed through local supermarkets trying to rack up the highest tab, can still be seen on WPXN weekdays at 6 p.m.; it also led to a spinoff in 1967.

Before they got caught last summer, the boys had planned an "opening day party," complete with T-shirts, where the mission was to invite the drafted girls and, unbeknownst to them, score points by trying to rack up as many sexual encounters with the young women as possible.

You know, sitting on a couch all day long trying to rack up Achievements.