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Example sentences for "reaps"

Lexicographically close words:
reappears; reappoint; reappointed; reappointment; reapportionment; rear; reare; reared; rearer; rearguard
  1. On and on he leads her, casts her away when he has tired, and the Vice Trust with its directorate of powerful politicians, debased men, takes her and reaps its awful profit from her.

  2. A literary friend of the lady novelist, delighted with her success, finds in his countrywoman's treasury of facts the material for a poem out of which he, too, reaps a harvest.

  3. The human race reaps the fruit of every victory won on the fields of intellectual or physical conflict.

  4. If he loses the good will of his employer, he loses his place and with it all that his labor and time and brain have earned for himself as his own inalienable property, and his corporation or employer reaps the benefit of it.

  5. There is hardly another department of medicine where the "quack" reaps so great a harvest as in the treatment of skin diseases.

  6. And yet in hypnotized complacency the masses stand; for meanwhile commerce reaps its costly gains and labour draws in enhanced increment the wages of the living and the dead.

  7. Celui qui sème le vent récolte la tempête = He who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind; Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

  8. L’un bat les buissons et l’autre prend les oiseaux = One does the work and the other reaps the advantage; One man starts the game and another kills it.

  9. In other words, the individual sows and his offspring or the nation reaps the harvest.

  10. Whoso loveth silver shall not have joy of silver;[257] And he who sets his heart on riches reaps nought therefrom.

  11. He that in battle traffics, and pitch'd fields, Reaps with his sword rich harvests, which war yields.

  12. The community which sows a neglected childhood reaps a whirlwind in defective manhood.

  13. Not only the ethnologist and botanist, but the archæologist as well reaps a rich harvest for his labours here.

  14. Her life is the gospel of unselfishness, and she reaps the reward of love.

  15. This country reaps the benefit of this first step in altruism based on the highest Christian and democratic doctrines.

  16. Near Trèves, the man who reaps the last standing corn "cuts the goat's neck off.

  17. If a reaper overtakes the man in front he reaps past him, bending round so as to leave the slower reaper in a patch by himself.

  18. At Aurich, in East Friesland, the man who reaps the last corn "cuts the hare's tail off.

  19. There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

  20. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's?

  21. It is written," replied Ulenspiegel, "that he who soweth the rye of seduction reaps the ergot of cuckoldom.

  22. Nele, is it so that in Flanders when a man sows kisses he reaps boxes on the ear?

  23. Last of all comes the essayist, or writer pure and simple, who reaps the harvest so laboriously prepared.

  24. And invariably in this unequal partnership he reaps most richly who reaps latest.

  25. Each of them sets himself to reap a patch of corn and reaps as fast as he can; he who cuts the last handful or the last stalk is greeted by the rest with an exulting cry, "You have the Old Man.

  26. Near Treves, the man who reaps the last standing corn "cuts the goat's neck off.

  27. O best of virtuous men, man's actions are either good or bad, and he undoubtedly reaps their fruits.

  28. In the world of men, no man reaps the consequences of another man's karma.

  29. It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain.

  30. He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  31. Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

  32. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

  33. But the cunning of the mechanician has invaded the ancient customs; the very sheaves are now to be bound with wire by the same machine that reaps the corn.

  34. The purchaser pays a certain price for the wheat as it grows, reaps it when ripe, and makes what profit he can.

  35. Thus not only the metropolis but the whole country reaps the blessings of this magnificent system of free education.

  36. He invests cautiously, allows others to improve the neighborhoods in which his property lies, and reaps the benefit of their labors.

  37. Consequently, the religious tire themselves out, and the devil reaps what harvest he wills.

  38. From the cross, He reaps His richest harvest of glory.

  39. He reaps a richer harvest of glory, honor, and praise in the fields of redemption than ever He could have reaped from those of creation.

  40. A man who receives courtesy without exercising it, reaps that which he has not sown.

  41. The drunken spendthrift reaps as he sows; and the sober, industrious, honest man reaps as he sows.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reaps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.