Explore Raker through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Raker meaning
- A person who uses a rake.
- A machine for raking grain or hay.
- A gun positioned so as to rake an enemy ship with gunfire.
Using Raker
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who uses a rake. | A machine for raking grain or hay. | A gun positioned so as to rake an enemy ship with gunfire.
- In the example corpus, raker often appears in combinations such as: the raker, raker act.
Context around Raker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Raker
- In this selection, "raker" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jill, stephanie, judge, act, managing and surprised stand out and add context to how "raker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and jill raker managing partners and by the raker act in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "raker" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with raker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Chelsea Raker pleaded guilty last October to armed robbery. (9 words)
Sieving functional morphology of the gill raker feeding apparatus of Atlantic menhaden. (12 words)
By the following year, Judge Raker was elected to a seat in Congress. (13 words)
The city and the Sierra Club argued over the dam for 10 years, until the U.S. Congress passed the Raker Act in 1913 and allowed dam building to proceed. (30 words)
The ease of transferring an Associate of Applied Science degree he earned at Western Dakota Tech was a key turning point in Raker’s decision to attend CSC. (28 words)
San Francisco was also granted a perpetual leasehold over the Hetch Hetchy Valley and watershed in Yosemite National Park by the Raker Act in 1913. (25 words)
Example sentences (8)
Michael Weiss and Jill Raker, managing partners of Greenbriar, will join Uber Freight's board, the companies said in a statement.
Knowing this, Flaherty’s neighbor, Stephanie Raker, surprised her with the little free library for her garden over the winter.
By the following year, Judge Raker was elected to a seat in Congress.
Chelsea Raker pleaded guilty last October to armed robbery.
The ease of transferring an Associate of Applied Science degree he earned at Western Dakota Tech was a key turning point in Raker’s decision to attend CSC.
San Francisco was also granted a perpetual leasehold over the Hetch Hetchy Valley and watershed in Yosemite National Park by the Raker Act in 1913.
Sieving functional morphology of the gill raker feeding apparatus of Atlantic menhaden.
The city and the Sierra Club argued over the dam for 10 years, until the U.S. Congress passed the Raker Act in 1913 and allowed dam building to proceed.
Common combinations with raker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: