REPAY in a Sentence

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For REPAY, below is one of 33 sentences:
He received ten thousand rubles a year, but now resolved to take only two thousand and leave the rest to repay the debt to his parents.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
repay
 v.  pay back money borrowed from someone
 v.  give something as recompense for a favor or kindness received
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  I can never repay you what you've done for me and for mine out of the kindness of your heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  She'd have to repay that money some time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Half of what she made every month went to Will at Tara, part to Rhett to repay his loan and the rest she hoarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  It will repay me enough to know that Scarlett will not be exhausting herself driving miles to the mills every day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
5  I can never, never half repay her for what she's done for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
6  Already his wealth, and the masterly use he had made of it, were giving him an enviable prominence in the world of affairs, and placing Wall Street under obligations which only Fifth Avenue could repay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
7  She had a passionate desire that some one should know the truth about this transaction, and also that the rumour of her intention to repay the money should reach Judy Trenor's ears.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  "On condition, sir, that I may repay it at some future time, I will," said George, taking up the money.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Probably he was a man of grateful heart who wished to repay his employers for the good treatment which he had received.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
10  Ah, I know your fraternity thoroughly, and know that you keep lists of all who have mortgages to repay.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
11  First of all I had at once to repay what I had borrowed the day before from Simonov.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
12  He received ten thousand rubles a year, but now resolved to take only two thousand and leave the rest to repay the debt to his parents.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV
13  Do not advance it; the father will never repay it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
14  I said I owed him more obligations than I could ever repay, and held him in a higher admiration than I could ever express.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
15  In the meantime Miss Davidson was devising plans to repay the loan.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
Example Sentence:
1  You should read this article - it would repay your time.
2  He had to sell his car to repay the bank loan.
3  The revenue from the farm could repay the initial outlay within three years.
4  Obtain a copy of any form will have to repay that day.
5  They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years.
6  It took three years to repay my student loan.
7  Although young Lord Widgeon was insolvent, he had no fear of being thrown into debtors' prison, for he was sure that if his creditors pressed him for payment his wealthy parents would repay what he owed.
8  Interest will be refunded in the event of early repayment of the loan.
9  The normal repayment period is five years.
10  The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment.
11  Negotiations between the two sides have gone nowhere for five months and have become particularly rancorous in the past month as bailout and debt repayment deadlines came and went.
12  The chairman warned that a deal with the banks must be struck by May; or, with major debt repayments due over in 18 months, the business could go bust.
13  These repayments are putting a strain on our finances.