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.
• The grants do not have to be repaid.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• The city will use that to repay the loan.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
• Hardt says the state has been slow to repay him.
  — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
• Or your heirs can repay the loan and keep the house.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
• Alas, there are some debts that can’t be repaid.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
• It will be repaid with fees trash haulers pay to use the landfill.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Unlike loans, these grants did not have to be repaid.
  — Ryan Creps, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
• The bonds will be repaid from the project’s rental revenue.
  — Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
• As ever, the saps are those who worked to repay their debt on time.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• What’s the total cost to repay?
  — Shaun Quin, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Nerves are rising that big banks are tied up in loans that might not get repaid.
  — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
• Banks want to make loans to people who are likely to be able to repay them.
  — Bridget J. Crawford, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2022
• Griffins said when Brown didn't ask him to to repay the rent money.
  — James E. Causey, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2022
• The country soon ran out of money and couldn't repay its huge debts.
  — Krutika Pathi, ajc, 10 July 2022
• 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
• They will get repaid with interest from the tolls.
  — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
• The loan fund is repaid, replenished, and then reused for the next project.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
• These usually are repaid in weeks or months.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
• That way, if your case goes bust, the lawyer and plaintiff are not required to repay it.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• Faith in Gio Reyna will have to be repaid.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026
• Ramírez repays his trust by walking him through the front gates and all the way to his classroom.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 14 June 2024
• Men like him, who risked their lives for a country a world away, were repaid with doors slammed in their faces.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
• Some have given her cows as a way of repaying her for the un-repayable.
  — Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 13 May 2024
• The money must be repaid to the reserve fund within one year.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• The City does not have an obligation to repay these bonds.
  — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
• She is also ordered to repay the victims of these schemes in full.
  — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026