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Example sentences for "repay"

Lexicographically close words:
repast; repasts; repatriated; repatriating; repatriation; repayable; repaying; repayment; repayments; repayre
  1. Ricote offered Don Gregorio a thousand crowns if he would have them, but he would not take any save five which Don Antonio lent him and he promised to repay at the capital.

  2. Rise, Sancho, my friend; I will repay your courtesy by taking care that my lord the duke makes good to you the promised gift of the government as soon as possible.

  3. Of course, he will have to pay for it," he said to himself, but he knew in his heart that he never asked his sons to repay anything, and that they never offered to do so.

  4. Is that the way you repay my confidence in you, and do you really care much about it?

  5. If they are caught in theft they are Slaves till they repay the Person, (as I mention'd before) but to steal from the English they reckon no Harm.

  6. The baronet eagerly grasped our hero by the hand, and assured him of his protection and favor to the utmost of his power; declaring at the same time that no possible reward could equal his deserts or repay his services.

  7. Sir George and his lady invited our hero and Mr. Rhys to dine with them the next day at Ystrad Fîn, where the baronet said they would discuss in what manner he could repay the services of the brave deliverer of his lady.

  8. They had been wantonly attacked: why not repay their attackers in their own coin?

  9. The widow wanted to repay me the L100 or so I've wasted, but of course I couldn't hear of that.

  10. I proposed visiting Altengaard in the summer, on my way to the North Cape, and there is nothing in the barren tract between the two places to repay the excursion.

  11. I only find myself unable to repay the obligation.

  12. Think not to-morrow can repay The debt of pleasure lost to-day; Alas!

  13. I shall study to repay his friendship as it deserves.

  14. I must, however, previously entreat being informed of the name and residence of my benefactor, in order to repay him as soon as possible.

  15. I can now repay many-fold the kindness of my good lady V----.

  16. In her you are sure of a tender, faithful, and charming friend; who will more than repay every act of kindness towards her; and he who is the author of justice and mercy will not fail to bless you.

  17. Your kindness, I tell you again, my valuable relation, I will repay an hundred-fold.

  18. I wish I could repay her the debt of love I owe her, but I will try to repair my fault hereafter; and in her gentle bosom perhaps I may recover that peace, to which I have been so long a stranger.

  19. The young gentleman, who was present, handsomely acknowleged the obligations he had to my father, and assured him he thought he could never sufficiently repay them.

  20. From this lofty perch he can enjoy the best view of the streets along the route of the vehicle, and if the driver be inclined to loquacity, he may hear many a curious tale to repay him for his extra exertion.

  21. Experienced burglars only engage in it, and these never undertake it without being sure that the plunder to be secured will fully repay them for the danger to be encountered.

  22. The next lecture will be on Sculpture by Mr. George Simonds, and if it is half so good as Mr. Morris it will well repay a visit to the lecture-room.

  23. He will owe sterling or dollars, but he will sell his product for marks, and his power, when the time comes, to turn these marks into the currency in which he has to repay his debt is entirely problematic.

  24. They repay you with sweetness and healing.

  25. Those who have been able to do so, and have trusted the land to repay them, have discovered that the measure is over-full.

  26. It did indeed repay them such a crop of souls as any watering produces in that soil; but at San Juan Capistrano, where a new foundation was in progress, they buried the bells and returned to the presidio.

  27. A wandering beggar, who thrusts himself into society which may some day repay his insolence with chastisement!

  28. I have sacrificed your tenderness to my distracted passions; but you shall no more be subject to the caprices of a man who cannot repay your innocent love with his own.

  29. Too well assured of being all the world to Lady Sara, the belief that Miss Euphemia liked him only from idleness, caprice, and contradiction, caused him to repay her overtures with decided contempt.

  30. And what is more, I have promised that you will repay these weighty obligations by the free gift of this dear hand.

  31. It was not until you, my dear Thaddeus, were born that I could repay the goodness of my father with the smiles of cheerfulness.

  32. I should ill repay this generous confidence, my noble young friend, were I to hesitate a moment in forming some plan which may prove of service to you.

  33. That fine lad persisted in seeing the Nautilus's commander as merely one of those unappreciated scientists who repay humanity's indifference with contempt.

  34. You can repay your debt by coming with me when I leave this infernal Nautilus.

  35. But no expression of thanks could repay them fully for such devotion.

  36. By this man they sent a sufficient sum to repay the owner for the use of it.

  37. Sire, your majesty deigned to write in verse, and Mademoiselle de la Valliere wished to repay your majesty in the same coin; that is to say, in gold.

  38. Louise, Louise, you shall be bitterly revenged; tears of blood shall repay you for the tears you have shed.

  39. Many a time hath he paid me from a sponging house; often hath he given me groats for sack, and for purges when sack hath undone me; and did I ever insult him to offer to repay him a penny?

  40. He could never now repay the debt he owed, but he could do more--he could be just to himself and the memory of her who had opened her lips wisely to reprove, and her hand kindly to relieve.

  41. In the whole range of elegant moral fiction, there cannot be found any thing of more inestimable value, or superior to this work, and it is a gem that will well repay a careful perusal.

  42. Look you, Duplessis, when a man like me asks a favour, you may be sure that he has the power to repay it.

  43. Savarin to repay the sum I recommended you to lend him, and for which you hold his bill due this day.

  44. The wondrous capital seemed to repay its Imperial embellisher by the splendour and the joy of its fetes.

  45. You have saved my life, and I can never repay you.

  46. These actors, on their part, would retain a grateful sense of the kindness they had received, and would seek to repay it to John Shakspeare, now that he was depressed in his fortunes, as opportunities might offer.

  47. I will lend you twenty pounds, if you will repay it.

  48. He only wished to repay to the village the happy hours he had spent in it the past summer.

  49. The only stipulation that looks like a punishment was the bond to repay the cost of her journey to France; though not only was this modified later on, but the Duke received numerous grants of land to help to defray the charge.

  50. They bore those goods to the ships, and Gunnar asks Tofi in what way he wished him to repay him.

  51. I am the friend of my friend," said Hrapp, "but when ill is done to me I repay it.

  52. What know I whether Thrain will repay us with any good?

  53. She said she would bear that slap in mind and repay it if she could.

  54. Gunnar said he should never be able to repay that, but then he begged them for help; and they said that was his due.

  55. He said they would be bought full dear, "and take heed that ye do not repay the giver in the coin which he no doubt wishes to get".

  56. He took the money, but yet said he had no claim on Flosi for gifts, but still I would be glad to know in what thou wilt that I repay thee.

  57. No taxes raised in America could possibly repay it.

  58. In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake.

  59. But if ordinary men in power repay you with incapacity or with princely vices?

  60. Our expenses will repay themselves with tenfold interest, while yours entail upon you everlasting poverty.

  61. Say not when mischief is done, that you had not warning, and remember that we do not begin it, but mean to repay it.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amends; atone; avenge; bandy; clear; compensate; cover; even; expiate; indemnify; make; merit; offset; pay; quit; rebate; reciprocate; recompense; recoup; rectify; redress; refund; reimburse; remunerate; repay; replace; requite; restore; retaliate; retrieve; reward; right; satisfy; score; square