Sentence examples for reap and from inspiring English sources

There was "a time to sow and a time to reap," and if the Constitution were not ratified now, "we shall never have another opportunity".

They are everyday proverbs: "What you sow, so shall you reap," and "Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today".

And enough years on this earth to know that there is a time to sow and a time to reap, and that the second required both grace and courage.

Indeed, the fact that greenery has suddenly become a hot topic may make compromise more difficult".There is a time to reap, and a time to sow," says Josh Dorner of the Sierra Club, an environmental pressure group.

One speaker, Sherif Girgis, told attendees they were "sowing where we might not reap" and proclaimed: "The truth is going to reassert itself sooner or later; we just need someone to keep telling it".

If you look all up your valleys, where the growing harvests shine, You may see our sturdy farmer boys, fast forming into line; And children from their mothers' knees, are pulling at the weeds, And learning how to reap and sow against their country's needs; And a farewell group stands weeping at every cottage door: We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!

There is no ritual of "reaping" and no televised spectacle, as in "The Hunger Games".

The cultivation, reaping and processing of sugar canes dominated all aspects of island life and culture into the early 1900s.

Moore is reaping — and since his first film 20 years ago has reaped — the benefits of the very system he attacks in this movie.

The profits to be reaped and the involvement of drug companies in financing the study raised concerns in some quarters.

Before principal photography began, Nargis and Raaj Kumar familiarised themselves with farming practices such as ploughing the fields, reaping and sowing, and cotton picking.