How to Use reaper in a Sentence

reaper

noun

• In the right conditions, the sweaty reaper can come for all of us.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2017
• The band appears to fear neither the reaper nor the passing of time.
  — Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
• Block’s fans and peers observed him scud around the reaper’s blade at 110 mph ...
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 7 Jan. 2023
• The reaper is sure to be salivating and Taza is ripe for the picking.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• The ghost and reaper in the hottest options bring serious fire.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 26 June 2019
• But in the last six months, the odds reset, like some grim-reaper-ish version of the New York Times needle.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 21 Jan. 2021
• Leal and Hochman first met after Leal staged a protest in Brownsville while wearing a grim-reaper costume.
  — Lauren Hilgers, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
• Though the reaper has yet to knock for Östlund’s heroes, his films serve an indictment for sins unatoned.
  — Andrew Marzoni, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• Yet confronting even a sweet-talking reaper can foster a kind of self-mastery.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• The Carolina reaper pepper currently holds the Guinness World Record for the hottest chili pepper in the world.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
• Some people picked up in season three that Isaac has the Sons of Anarchy tattoo, the reaper tattoo.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 June 2022
• Farmers who had bought specialized beet reapers watched crops rot.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• Their award-winner Miss Reapper is made of honey, aged jalapeños and a touch of Carolina reaper and ghost peppers.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2022
• This podcast sheds a light on the history behind Oct. 31, like the origin of the holiday, trick-or-treating, and the reaper’s image.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Meet Thanatotheristes degrootorum, the ‘reaper of death’!
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2020
• This machine will be improved upon, so that in a short time our rice planters can harvest their crops on a bicycle reaper and binder, while taking their morning spin.
  — NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• The reapers worked with Mojo Outdoors to create this decoy, the Scoot and Shoot, the first commercially successful reaping decoy.
  — Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2019
• After a period of what looked like unchecked expansion, with new late-night shows popping up like wildflowers (or sometimes weeds), the reaper seems to have arrived.
  — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• The Petty shop, which began in a reaper shed built by his dad, now is headquarters for Petty’s Garage, a growing business that builds custom cars and restores classic car models.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
• And right then Andrew had believed him, believed this towheaded reaper, who, being young and innocent, seemed more in tune with broader lethal currents.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Earlier this month, planters clogged the parking lot at the office of the governor of Baja California state with tractors, reapers and other farming equipment.
  — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2017
• Preservationists usually don’t bat an eye when a gas station meets the grim reaper, since most are cheap and forgettable (and certainly don’t add to the pedestrian experience).
  — Neal Broverman, Los Angeles Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
• By the end of the second season, hackers, apparently Russian, have temporarily disabled a satellite called Blue Öyster Cult, which began descending in the atmosphere and feared the reaper.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 17 Feb. 2022
• They can be dipped in smoky sweet barbecue, garlic parmesan, bourbon teriyaki, classic, spicy Thai chili, spicy garlic, Nashville hot, pineapple habanero or the reaper sauces or dry-rubbed with lemon pepper or spicy cajun seasonings.
  — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
• Products can include reapers, tractors and other related equipment.
  — Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2018
• Because unlike the effective-yet-cumbersome MQ-9 Reapers, these multicopters can carry a sniper rifle, a grenade launcher, or a machine gun—the inevitable convergence of hobby drones and military weapons.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2017
• Scenes before and after Bill’s death personalize the reaper’s presence for several major characters.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• The outlook for Halloween was as grim as a reaper at the outset of the pandemic, with companies like Hershey cutting back on candy packaging tied to trick-or-treating and some pop-up retailers for spooky wares waiting to secure physical spaces.
  — Gillian Friedman, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• The game puts you in the role of Neku, an amnesiac loner who finds himself in a strange, alternate reality version of Shibuya where supernatural beings called reapers task humans with completing various missions.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2018
• In the 1850s, agricultural machinery pioneer Cyrus McCormick opened his first factory in Chicago and built a dealer network to sell his mechanical reaper, which revolutionized farming.
  — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024