Example sentences for: reap

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

  • Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

  • While the home still evinces mutterings of "Xanadu" from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor.

  • "We believe [the stocks] offer a sound way to play the fundamental strength and renewed investor enthusiasm we expect to see during the fall and holiday shopping season," he wrote, arguing in essence that places like Amazon and eToys could expect to see booming business at Christmas, while portals like Yahoo would reap the benefits of all the new online shoppers, most of whom would pass through a portal to get to the e-commerce sites.

  • In the long run, the impact of day trading on stock prices is negligible, and although the rise of the Net has facilitated day trading, in fact day trading as it's done at firms such as All-Tech and Momentum looks more like old investing than new investing, in this sense: The people who profit from day trading are not the day traders, but the firms that reap huge commissions from all the trading, just as old-line brokers tended to encourage people to trade to increase churn in their accounts and boost commissions.

  • The apparent cause: Investors waited for the new tax year to reap profits from recent stock gains.


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