reap
verb (used with object)
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
were reaping
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past progressiveof reap.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Most people believed that the dolphins were reaping rewards, too, but this hypothesis was more difficult to put to the test.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 30, 2023
“Just as we were reaping the benefits of democracy, HIV swoops in and robs us of it,” recalls epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim, CAPRISA’s director and Quarraisha Abdool Karim’s husband.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2022
Moroccan-born American academic and author Anouar Majid, who has written several books about Islam in the West, said far-right parties were reaping political gains from anxiety over Europe’s wave of immigration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
By mid-January 1980 they owned or controlled such vast quantities of silver that they were reaping $100 million in paper profit with every $1 increase in the price.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2014
I saw them again in August when they were reaping the crop and storing the grain away in their nests.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
