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12 example sentences for REQUITE, such as:

1. But, to have saved you requites itself.
2. The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited.
3. The wretch used to requite his benefactors by betraying them.
4. He gave her in requital of all things else which ye had taken from me.
5. To each of these two, in requital of their splendid deeds, two ploughgates only of the public land were given.

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 Meanings and Examples of REQUITE
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requite
 v.  repay; revenge; make repayment for or return something
Classic Sentence:
1  My master," answered Baldwin, "knows how to requite scorn with scorn, and blows with blows, as well as courtesy with courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  "Trust me, I will requite the risk you run for my love, Gurth," said the Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  He gave her in requital of all things else which ye had taken from me.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
4  She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
5  And now, sirs," said Prince John, who began to be warmed with the wine which he had drank, "having done justice to our Saxon guests, we will pray of them some requital to our courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  To each of these two, in requital of their splendid deeds, two ploughgates only of the public land were given.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV.
7  The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
8  Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
9  Ay," grumbled the hag, "even thus is service requited.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  Noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
11  But, to have saved you requites itself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence:
1  The wretch used to requite his benefactors by betraying them.