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Example sentences for "repository"

Lexicographically close words:
reposeth; reposing; reposited; reposition; repositories; reposo; repossess; repossessed; repot; repotted
  1. With the establishment of a repository in the colony, trade became more regular, debtors less delinquent, and the problem of securing transportation for exports or imports was mitigated.

  2. A factor was one who resided in the colony and served as a representative and the repository of the English merchant.

  3. Such a man is almost always the repository of family secrets; a repository whose inviolability gold cannot affect, threats sway, or cajolery influence.

  4. A night watchman named Fawcett states that between one and two o'clock he heard a slight noise in the neighborhood of the lower strong-room, used as a repository for the plate and other possessions of various customers of the bank.

  5. He carried a loose key, with which he unlocked a door a little way along the passage, and so ushered us into that dreadful repository which perhaps has fewer visitors than any other of equal interest in the world.

  6. In consequence of this, though they did not abolish the antient usage of the place, they made it a repository of grain, from whence they gave largesses to the people upon any act of merit.

  7. Language, then, with the logic imbedded in it, is a repository of terms formed by identifying successive perceptions, as the external world is a repository of objects conceived by superposing perceptions that exist together.

  8. Master of the Wardrobe, and the repository for the royal clothes.

  9. The repository was built at the rear of the house, and thither the society's museum was removed.

  10. Over thirty-five volumes of these Transactions have appeared, and they are an invaluable repository of information on the history, customs, religion, and literature of Japan.

  11. These separate series of volumes of Transactions of Japanese Societies, running through many years, are an invaluable repository of information on the history, customs, religion, and literature of Japan.

  12. I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day.

  13. The academy has not even a place of meeting, nor is a repository for its property and records provided for it.

  14. He often regretted that in the great national repository of literature the collection would merge into the universal mass.

  15. The mighty tome of Pliny, that awful repository of all the errors of antiquity, and other writers of equal name, detail prodigies and legends, and so do the Fathers.

  16. The provisions of the chief Repository of those laws that must govern its operation are thus far mostly undisclosed.

  17. The whole creation hath been made the recipient of the revelation of the All-Merciful, and the earth the repository of things inscrutable to all except God, the Truth, the Knower of things unseen.

  18. The lids removed, each article was carefully lifted from its repository and placed on chairs.

  19. At any rate in an autocratic country there is a visible, tangible repository of power to whom you can apply.

  20. If the repository is in the humour you will get whatever you want done, in the way of justice or injustice.

  21. It is a rich repository of details respecting the geography, statistics, and manners of the Peninsula, with a copious historical notice of events in Ferdinand and Isabella's reign.

  22. Within recent years the use of wheeling metal bookcases has been greatly extended, and a large repository has been arranged for economical book storage underground.

  23. It is a valuable repository of psychological facts, many of them drawn from the more obscure regions of mental life and from abnormal experience, and is throughout suggestive and stimulating.

  24. The smallness of the number, it has been suggested, seems to show that Constantine's library was mainly intended as a repository of Christian literature.

  25. It may surprise him to be told that in ante-bellum days it was not only the chief repository of culture, but possessed a fair proportion of the nation's wealth.

  26. It has ever been the great repository of morality, the balance- wheel of society, the brain and brawn of the majestic world.

  27. I yield Thee thanks that Thou hast made known unto me Him Who is the Day-Spring of Thy mercy, and the Dawning-Place of Thy grace, and the Repository of Thy Cause.

  28. Such is the solidarity which binds us Hebrews together, and which constitutes our strength, that my grandsire, even had he no son, would have found some faithful repository for his trust.

  29. They fitted up, from the relics in the furniture repository of the old mansion, a room for Oliver, and took upon themselves the task of preparing our meals.

  30. I was stared at in the rector's pew at church, and, in my solitary rides, whithersoever I went, as the repository of the great secret of the disruption between Sir Massingberd and his nephew.

  31. He is the sole living repository of a most frightful secret.

  32. Beardsworth's Repository for Horses and Carriages, Is upon an extensive scale, about sixty yards from the S.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repository" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquaintance; advocate; archives; armory; arsenal; attic; backer; bank; basement; bay; bin; bookcase; box; brother; cache; cashbox; cellar; chest; closet; coffer; confidant; conservatory; crate; crib; cupboard; depository; depot; dock; drawer; dump; exchequer; familiar; fellow; fellowman; fund; hold; hutch; intimate; library; locker; lover; lumberyard; magazine; mine; neighbor; partisan; pickup; rack; receptacle; repertory; repository; reservoir; rick; safe; shelf; stack; storage; store; storehouse; storeroom; supporter; sympathizer; tank; till; treasury; vat; vault; warehouse; fund; hold; hutch; intimate; library; locker; lover; lumberyard; magazine; mine; neighbor; partisan; pickup; rack; receptacle; repertory; repository; reservoir; rick; safe; shelf; stack; storage; store; storehouse; storeroom; supporter; sympathizer; tank; till; treasury; vat; vault; warehouse