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
• 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
• Alameda had to repay billions of dollars to the lenders.
  — WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• Birkenstock plans to use proceeds from the offering to repay debt.
  — Ryan Gould, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
• About 77% of black adults believe descendants of slaves should be repaid in some way, while only 18% of white adults thought the same.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
• The plan calls for institutions to repay those loans in a year, when, if anything, the bonds will likely be worth even less.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
• City officials said the $12 million advance from the port will likely be spent in three years but could take the city more than a decade to repay.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
• That will require almost 43 years for the outstanding amount to be repaid.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2023
• Then, the score is changed to better predict a person's ability to repay a car loan on time.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
• With interest, the total sum to be repaid stands at around $375 million.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Twitter needs to boost sales in order to repay $12.5 billion in debt the company took on when Musk bought it.
  — Aisha Counts, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2023
• Those clients were repaid with millions of dollars out of the pockets of the firm's other attorneys, Ball said.
  — Jeffrey Collins, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
• Flores and Moore agreed to repay $1 million to the victim's estate as part of a settlement but have so far failed to do so.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
• Because the deposits come due sooner than the loans, no bank could repay all its depositors in the short run.
  — William M. Isaac, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• The state was scheduled to finish repaying the money by 2033.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2023
• People can take one such withdrawal per year if the money is repaid.
  — For Nerdwallet, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
• If approved, Loudon would need to repay his profits with interest, on top of a fine that will be determined by the court.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• The bank ended this practice last year, but will still have to repay customers who got charged before the policy was changed.
  — Ken Sweet, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• Ninety-five percent of customers repay their loans on time.
  — Lenwood V. Long, Sr., Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024