Example sentences for: reap

How can you use “reap” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Is it too large a leap of faith to believe that the right incentives, ones that capitalize on the comparative advantages of people or locations, can reap positive returns not just for the direct beneficiaries, but for the larger society?

  • The odd thing is that at this moment when markets are replacing hierarchies all across the American business landscape, you also have all these companies--like AOL, like Viacom/CBS, like DaimlerChrysler, like AT&T--doing the exact opposite, making deals on the assumption that you need to have everything under one roof to really reap all the benefits.

  • The Hindu of Madras, on the other hand, recommended that both nations call a cease-fire in the spin war: "The danger at the present time is that neither Government--one facing crucial elections and ready to reap the rewards of chest-thumping triumphalism and the other confronting a resurgent fundamentalist militancy--seems in a hurry to help de-escalate."

  • Drawback: Progressive policies make a community less "business friendly," so surrounding areas reap the economic benefits.

  • The seeds of paranoia that were planted in the hothouse of the late '60s and early '70s germinated, and in the cynical, offhand conspiracism of the '90s, we reap their fruit.


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