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Example sentences for "repaid"

Lexicographically close words:
reorientation; reound; repack; repacked; repacking; repaint; repainted; repainting; repair; repaire
  1. This is some little trouble, but will be well repaid by having at all times cheap and wholesome fowls, etc.

  2. I vowed a vow that she would be repaid for the waiting as never woman yet was paid.

  3. These holdings are deducted from the quota because they are not credit to be repaid but the result of an exchange transaction.

  4. She likewise trusted, that present sacrifice of his society would be repaid by the perfect cure of his first love.

  5. He said "I shall have obtained all I desire, if the sacrifice of my life saves that of the king, for so I shall have repaid him for his food which I have eaten.

  6. And having in this way repaid the benefit, which he conferred upon me by saving my life, I brought him to my house, and entertained him honourably for a long time with all loving attention.

  7. If you consider your letter well repaid by this gift, it will now be your turn to write me a letter.

  8. What you owe me, and in what coin you have repaid me--I do not go into that.

  9. He, on his part, repaid letters and messages as much as possible with his own presence.

  10. I succeeded, and was repaid by their hugs.

  11. He found the family assembled in their summer parlour, beneath the handsome butternut tree which Robert's axe had spared, and which repaid the indulgence by grateful shade and continual beauty of leafage.

  12. And how were these repaid for that past toil, by the sweet mother's smile as she entered the neat little parlour, and was established in the rocking-chair which Arthur had manufactured and cushioned with exceeding pains!

  13. If you loved me, and knelt at my feet, I would not make you my wife after the art and the lies with which you have repaid my trust.

  14. So to du Croisier he wrote a very offhand letter, informing him that he had drawn a bill of exchange on him for ten thousand francs, adding that the amount would be repaid on receipt of the letter either by M.

  15. If I repaid you at once and we never saw each other again, it would be no more than you deserve for giving wings to his vices.

  16. She had wanted to sing for the people and had--but they had repaid her by breaking her heart.

  17. I have done wrong both to mother and to you, but I was repaid when my only child forsook me, and after ten years I must come as far as here to find her.

  18. This accession of skill and industry soon raised the woollen fabrics of England to a pitch of excellence unknown in former ages, and repaid with usury to the country this exercise of public hospitality.

  19. He repaid the insidious complaisance of Leicester with good will and even with confidence; and it was not till all was lost that he appears to have recognised this fatal and irreparable error.

  20. Her expenses however were to be repaid by the king after the expulsion of the enemy.

  21. I did not quite regret this, as I had made up my mind to see as little as possible of him for the future, thinking he had repaid himself for his kindness, by the proposals he had made to me.

  22. The hundred crowns have repaid me," I replied as I took my departure, having said all I dared say of the plot without breaking my pledge of secrecy to Ceci.

  23. I come to tell you that you have sufficiently repaid your debt, and that from this moment I will pray to God to forgive you, as I do.

  24. Well, what does it signify, Valentine, so long as I am satisfied, and feel that even this long and painful suspense is amply repaid by five minutes of your society, or two words from your lips?

  25. And the bishops repaid the antipathy with interest.

  26. Haydon took no fees from his pupils, but repaid himself in a characteristic way.

  27. Loans were repaid with punctuality, and debts discharged.

  28. The great man’s kindness was repaid by the very attractive portrait which his protégé has given us in the first book of the “Utopia.

  29. Then the friends granted certain favourable terms under their concession to other friends, who built the first section of the line at preposterous rates, and repaid themselves out of moneys raised on the State's credit.

  30. He said that seeing the extent of his interests in the country, he would be amply repaid by the improvement in the conditions which it was intended to effect.

  31. As for you, Kehydius, you have foully repaid my trust in you and all my services.

  32. As Turquine destroyed knights, so did this villain, whose name was Peris de Forest Savage, destroy and distress ladies and gentlewomen, and he is well repaid for his villany.

  33. He determined that Ribata should some day be made aware of this whole matter, and should be repaid for his loss by Charmides himself, who would have the right to do so when Ramua was his wife.

  34. May my lord grant a little time and he shall be repaid--shall be repaid for all.

  35. But how was she repaid for all her trouble?

  36. I shall not give you my note for this, for if I am not repaid I do not expect to repay you.

  37. But this the bold knight and good repaid eftsoon.

  38. This the bold gleeman repaid with might; he smote Wolfhart, so that the sparks flew wide.

  39. He weened to find his bow or his sword, and then had Hagen been repaid as he deserved.

  40. If a crop may be had every other year until the trees are eight or ten years old, they will have well repaid the effort of cultivation.

  41. Still, all the trouble taken to grow the plants will be well repaid by the handsome blossoms.

  42. At first these excursions had been undertaken principally from charitable motives, and Bertha thought herself plentifully repaid in the love and thanks of her grateful pensioners.

  43. He had refused to eat any supper down-stairs to mark his displeasure, and now repaid himself by a stolen meal according to his own taste.

  44. It makes no difference at this point how the borrowed funds have been invested by the borrowing country, since the interest and the principal must be repaid at some time chiefly in the manner just indicated.

  45. She found herself quite repaid for the trouble of going into detail, by the unsophisticated pleasure in Mollie's eyes alone, for to Mollie outward furnishings seemed more than worthy of description and discussion.

  46. In half an hour all traces of her tears had fled, and she was sitting on her footstool near him, accepting with such evident delight his efforts at amusing her, that she quite repaid him for his trouble.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.