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
Those with drip irrigation or sprinklers invariably were reaping rich harvests and profits.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
They were enraged at the conduct of their rebellious companions of the milder stripe, who had deserted them, and they were reaping the general consequences of evil-doing.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic
