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 proceeds of the FPO were to be used to repay Ruchi’s debt.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2022
• 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
• As ever, the saps are those who worked to repay their debt on time.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Apr. 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
• 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
• That way, if your case goes bust, the lawyer and plaintiff are not required to repay it.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 27 Nov. 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, 3 May 2024
• 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, 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
• The answer, Cyr said, is that the parent will have to repay the advanced CTC payments.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2022
• Suppose the bank takes estate funds to repay the mortgage loan.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Some of the cash was used to repay investors in a previous venture.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• And that would generate up to $52 million per year, which the county could use to repay the bonds.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2022
• Your business must have healthy credit and the ability to repay the funding.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
• Oren and Tal’s partners at Official have since left the company, and they were sued by Side, a brokerage that was part of their firm, for failure to repay a loan.
  — Bridget Read, Curbed, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025