Example sentences for: reaped

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

  • The bad news : 1) The richest families reaped most of the gains; 2) the poorest families' wealth shrunk; and 3) the average family's debt jumped nearly 50 percent.

  • It's hard to imagine that a cut in today's hardly confiscatory tax rates would do the same, especially when the major beneficiaries of both bills would be the wealthy, who have already reaped enormous benefits from the boom.

  • Most corporations, with their skyrocketing pay to CEOs, seem to have turned that formula on its head, believing that they can compete successfully only by duplicating the enormous financial gains someone like Dell has reaped.

  • A Wall Street Journal front-page feature points to an interesting reason why established large corporations haven't exactly reaped the Internet's rewards: The large corps are used to insular, if not paranoid, decision-making, and Internet operations force them into all sorts of relations with outsiders they can't really control.

  • A 1996 World Bank study of more than 30 fast-growing economies showed that in nearly all of them, growth did not meaningfully change income distribution, and that even the poorest fifth of income-earners reaped absolute benefits from economic growth.


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