He glanced nervously at the water around him, imagining sharply raked dorsal fins lurking behind every swell, and started stroking for the life raft.

Both masts raked rather sharply aft, with the mainmast raked significantly more sharply than the foremast.

The 1922 Princess Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii featured "stadium seating," sharply raked rows of seats extending from in front of the screen back towards the ceiling.

But the bubble enclosure flared into a single high fin, raking sharply aft.

Julius's gaze raked over her sharply, then settled on her face.

With her sharply raked masts and twin smokestacks, she appeared to be moving while she was standing still.

A tourist takes a seat at the far end of the bar and asks for a Coke, interrupting Nielsen's muted discussion with four or five customers in jeans and boots and soiled old cowboy hats raked sharply from front to back.

In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black glass canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane.

Or would have been, if the warships between here and the naval docks hadn't been spewing so much black coal smoke from their sharply raked funnels.

The stage is a gigantic, runway-like cross, 100 feet long, sharply raked from two feet high at its foot to six feet above the floor near the cathedral's high altar.