How to Use repay in a Sentence

repay

verb

• She would rather have to repay the bank than borrow from her parents and have to repay them.
• How can I ever repay you for your kindness?
• How can I ever repay your kindness?
• You can repay the mortgage over 30 years.
• And if banks can’t repay all the advances in a year’s time?
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
• The bonds are to be repaid over 40 years by the city’s 2% hotel tax.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2024
• But how much is required of the fans to repay those bills?
  — Tyler Small, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• Griffins said when Brown didn't ask him to to repay the rent money.
  — James E. Causey, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2022
• It will be repaid with fees trash haulers pay to use the landfill.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• When consumers fail to repay their loans for a long time, banks write off the bad debt as a loss.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• Ramírez repays his trust by walking him through the front gates and all the way to his classroom.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 14 June 2024
• Alameda had to repay billions of dollars to the lenders.
  — WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• The grant didn't need to be repaid, according to the lawsuit.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2024
• Banks want to make loans to people who are likely to be able to repay them.
  — Bridget J. Crawford, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2022
• The country soon ran out of money and couldn't repay its huge debts.
  — Krutika Pathi, ajc, 10 July 2022
• If the fund went bankrupt and wasn’t able to repay its debt, the investors would lose their money.
  — Josh Gabert-Doyon, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
• The proceeds of the new bonds will then be used to repay or buy back existing bonds.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• On payday, the user repays the money out of their wages.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
• On payday, the user repays the money out of their wages.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 3 May 2024
• On payday, the user repays the money out of their wages, along with any fees.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 18 July 2024
• The money must be repaid to the reserve fund within one year.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• Some of the cash was used to repay investors in a previous venture.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• Some have given her cows as a way of repaying her for the un-repayable.
  — Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 13 May 2024
• The city would place a lien on the DMS property if the company defaults on the agreement and can’t repay the grants.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
• Sethi pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay investors.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Witt dies trying to repay the debt of Dot saving his life when Ole Munch tried to kill him at the gas station.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
• Even if Biden were to do the right thing, voters are unlikely to repay him with support.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2 Mar. 2024
• The toll revenue will go toward repaying the city of Overland Park’s $30 million share of the project cost.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
• Fred is not responsible for repaying the $400 excess from the FSA.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
• The rules are intended to reassure bond investors that the borrowing will generate growth in the future, so there should be greater returns with which to repay that borrowing.
  — London Business School, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024