reap what you sow

Examples of reaping

reaping

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

The observations were made on canes in the fields at the time of reaping as well as on samples taken at the mill carriers.
The shortage of shepherds meant that squatters either had to invest in fences, or miss reaping the benefits of the booming market.
Assuming average field size of 0.15 ha, up to 1000 farmers were interested in reaping the benefits demonstrated in the research project.
Progress in the development of a reaping machine was slow.
But human beings can be psychologically motivated by altruism while still reaping a genetic benefit from their altruistic actions.
Large farms by virtue of their larger gross irrigated area are reaping a larger proportion of the net returns, compared with marginal and small farms.
Like the adults in the study, they negotiated differences in temperament through their music making, reaping the rewards of collective understanding.
Of course, if a writer has the opportunity of reaping bountifully from her work, she is not expected to shy away from it.
Everyone is interested in selling high quality products and reaping higher the profits.
This attention is reaping rewards.
Wheat harvesting involved two separate activities : reaping and the related task of threshing and winnowing.
Most of these papers are firmly anchored in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but a few wander, with those considering the earlier centuries sometimes sowing rather than reaping.
Governments of a country with a big displacement in international financial markets may act like a hegemon, imposing their national policies in ways reaping national benefits and externalizing costs.
Olson, for instance, argues that special interest groups tend to influence state policy unduly, reaping particularistic privileges that damage the overall economy.
In the model there are two agents, namely the group of local people poaching and a park agency 'owning' and reaping the benefits of the wildlife.
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