reap what you sow

Examples of reaped

reaped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Through the "trading zone" that had been just opened he "reaped a splendid harvest" of more than 300 specimens in less than six hours.
This institutional vulnerability, of course, also tends to deprive the left of the benefits that might be reaped from partisan issue-associations.
Whatever theoretical advantages are secured by considering a restricted set of outcomes can only be reaped by due consideration of the larger set of outcomes.
One pepper farmer showed lack of interest in his crop, it became overgrown by weeds and nothing was reaped.
In expected value, it must equal the returns to be reaped from letting indirect selection work.
Historicism is always a risk, but it is one from which intellectual historians have reaped great rewards.
This would be an important predictor since presumably these happiness effects could only be reaped by those who actually participated in the political process.
His hands were never dirtied; his brain never taxed; he simply reaped the benefits of other people's labor.
Yet, research in developmental psychopathology has not reaped the full benefits of affective neuroscience approaches and methods.
British policy has now reaped its just rewards.
Finally, we have reaped some benefit from the higher-order representation of the output.
A rise in the enforceability of property rights might then lead to the monopoly gains from concentration being reaped.
There is to be ultimate advantage reaped in more prosperous, happier married life.
Lula's first administration went beyond what previous governments had accomplished and consequently reaped greater electoral profits but did not fundamentally alter the political landscape.
Ntuwo had indeed reaped the benefits of the forest clearing and the transformation of the obscuring forest into a cleared space.
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