Example sentences for: repay

How can you use “repay” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The New York Times leads with an anonymously sourced report that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has urged President Clinton to compromise with the GOP on abortion in order to repay U.N. dues, and she has volunteered to take the flack from pro-choice groups.

  • R: Now do I repay a period won .

  • However, if the borrowing from abroad is used to finance consumption, short-term wellbeing is improved but the ability to repay the borrowing in the future will not be enhanced.

  • Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."

  • Critics reply that 1) he will be less of a nuisance to the Chinese government as an exile than as a prisoner; 2) in exchange for his expulsion and other concessions, the United States recently stopped sponsoring the U.N. resolution condemning China's human rights policies; and 3) the United States will further repay China by refusing to air Wang and other dissidents on U.S. government international broadcasts.


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