Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use reward in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Reward means something of value given in return for an act. Example: “For catching the thief, you'll get a nice reward.”

Examples of reward by meaning

nounSomething of value given in return for an act.

  • For catching the thief, you'll get a nice reward.

nounA prize promised for a certain deed or catch.

  • The rewards for bringing in badly wanted criminals are printed on 'dead or alive' posters.

nounOne's place in heaven; God's judgment in the afterlife; death.

  • Your daddy ever tell you how Uncle Mac come to his reward?2007, No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethen Coen

nounThe result of an action, whether good or bad.

  • Is this the reward I get for telling the truth: to be put in jail?
  • Christian Benteke's first-half goal was just reward for Villa's undoubted superiority but Bradford managed to survive without further damage until half-time, before scoring the goal that takes them to Wembley for the first time since 1996.2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC

verbTo give a reward to or for.

  • Why are you rewarding the child for misbehaving?
  • Why are you rewarding that bad behaviour?

verbTo be a recompense for.

  • Decorations are meant to reward the most meritous acts and services.
  • The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC

More sentences with reward

  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.From the entry plum
  • I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.From the entry sac
  • Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished.From the entry conduct
  • I don't agree with it, but I'll abide by the decision to give the reward to her.From the entry abide by
  • The most prolific signers were to be amply rewarded by the sales-bonus structure.From the entry signer
  • One renders young people a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.From the entry disservice
  • I've been working my socks off all week for no reward whatsoever.From the entry one's socks off
  • Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.From the entry in
  • I received a poor reward for all my hard work.From the entry poor
  • That decision rewards those who least deserve it.From the entry least
  • His reward for his merit was a check for $50.From the entry merit
  • The rewards will be commensurate with the efforts made.From the entry commensurate
  • The duke's fiefdom had been greatly expanded as a reward for his dutiful military service on behalf of the king.From the entry fiefdom
  • I warned him that this was a high-risk, high reward situation and that he should be prepared to lose it all.From the entry high-risk, high-reward
  • Equal parts jazz landmark and make-out album, it rewards the listener on every level, and established modal jazz as a sub-genre that is still being explored.From the entry make-out
  • Surely there was a conscious weakness in the Spartans, who were always at pains to discipline their men in heroical conduct, and rewarded none save the standfasts.From the entry standfast
  • An online feed that constantly “refills” manipulates the brain’s dopaminergic reward system in a similar way.2024 December 9, Siân Boyle, “Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore”, in The Guardian…. From the entry loop
  • They weren't glamourising the grind because they knew their effort didn't match the supposed rewards.2023 September 20, Lucy Ford, “How pop-music's hustle culture anthem was made redundant”, in GQ. From the entry grind
  • The Maga base rewards them with money and the media lavishes them with airtime.2023 October 7, Edward Luce, “The unending Republican revolution”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry barnburner
  • The rewards for going along to get along serve the zombie institution.2023, Petra Mikulan, Michalinos Zembylas, Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education, page 2016. From the entry zombie institution
  • Proponents advocate using store credit cards with cash-back bonuses to sweeten the rewards.2022 August 8, Spencer Soper, “Amazon ‘drop-shipping’ resellers work a lollipop hustle that cost this family candy maker millions”, in Los…. From the entry dropshipping
  • The classic compulsion loop is designed to either relieve some stress or trigger some reward, or both.2022, Carl D. Marci, Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry compulsion loop
  • “The mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal dopamine pathways are what the call the reward pathways, all right?2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 154. From the entry mesolimbic
  • They’re the ones that activate when we’re expecting or receiving a reward.”2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 154. From the entry mesolimbic
  • There was a standing reward for turning in any werewolf who broke the rule.2020, Jodi Vaughn, Her Werewolf Champion. From the entry bet one's ass
  • They are the rewards of laboring in cities like Shenzhen — and monuments to the human cost.2019 December 15, Gerry Shih, “They built a Chinese boomtown. It left them dying of lung disease with nowhere to turn.”, in The New York…. From the entry Sangzhi
  • You get no reward meal if you veer off the carb cycle even 1%, that's the deal!2017 April 4, Michael Morelli, The Sweet Potato Diet: The Super Carb-Cycling Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks, Hachette UK…. From the entry no soup for you
  • Good fortune for me, as Lord Mandrake has promised a reward.”2016, Karen Cushman, Grayling's Song. From the entry oddsome
  • They pray for “deliverance” and seek reward in the form of grades “sustenance”.2016, Lily Kong, “Mimicking Religion as Coping Strategy: the Emergence of the Bell-Curve God in Singapore”, in Material Religion, volume…. From the entry bell curve god
  • Rather, the women are rewarded for taking charge and subverting social norms.2015, Gary Day, Jack Lynch, The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660-1789, page 574. From the entry parapornographic
  • We'll make it a 'do-ocracy.' That is, you will be rewarded for actually achieving results.2014, Aneesh Chopra, quoting John Halamka, Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic…. From the entry do-ocracy

Meaning of reward

  1. noun Something of value given in return for an act.
  2. noun A prize promised for a certain deed or catch.
  3. noun One's place in heaven; God's judgment in the afterlife; death.

Full definition of reward

Questions about reward in a sentence

How do you use reward in a sentence?
Reward is used as a noun and verb. For example: “For catching the thief, you'll get a nice reward.”
What is a short sentence with reward?
“Why are you rewarding that bad behaviour?”
What does reward mean?
Reward means something of value given in return for an act.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reward (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use reward in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/reward. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.