REAPER in a Sentence

Learn REAPER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for REAPER, such as:

1. At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me.
2. If a reaper is wounded at his work, they make the cat lick the wound.

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 Meanings and Examples of REAPER
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reaper
 n.  one who harvests grain, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops
Classic Sentence:
1  The cart must be tastefully ornamented; and if you and I dress ourselves as Neapolitan reapers, we may get up a striking tableau, after the manner of that splendid picture by Leopold Robert.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
2  At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
3  The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
4  Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
Example Sentence:
1  If a reaper is wounded at his work, they make the cat lick the wound.