Sentence examples for we rack from inspiring English sources

"The most important thing now is how many minutes we rack up," he said.

If we rack up badges for our online "achievements," we may as well do the same for our offline victories, too.

What we're hoping, he says, is that no one notices that this huge mess is "our fault, as we rack up our year-end bonuses and live in 'Matrix'-like ignorance".

Traditionally associated with reason and intellect, it has long been part of our everyday parlance: we rack our brains, arrange brainstorms or brain dumps, take part in mind wandering, have our "minds blown", and when eating cold things, some of us even experience "brain freeze".

We rack up our journalists in front of every speaker and we hold their feet to the fire.

In our pursuit of the good life, we rack up unsustainable debts and put impossible demands upon ourselves and the environment.

We racked up massive credit card bills every month, which were promptly paid in full.

"We racked our brains to create a place that works on a social level," Mr. Tepperberg said.

The last time we counted our garden birds, we racked up a dismal score, so we went to town on bird food.

Telling us that it's our obligation to pay the bills we racked up is tired old rhetoric that this American Express-cardholder family rejects.

A week ago today, with the help of Polly Freeman, countryside ranger with the Blair Atholl estate in Perthshire, we racked up species number 56, the Scotch argus, Scotland's own butterfly which is a rich chocolate brown with marmalade-coloured eye-spots.