REPAIR in a Sentence

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158 example sentences for REPAIR, such as:
1. He mixed up some plaster to repair the wall.
2. The man estimated for the repair of the car.
3. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.
4. Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.
5. I have to tell you that the machine is beyond repair.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of REPAIR
repair
 n.  a frequently visited place
 n.  a formal way of referring to the condition of something
Classic Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The replacing of these posts was one bit of repair work Scarlett did not suggest and, if the negroes knew why, they kept their silence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  The heavy old mahogany table, spread with cake and decanters, still presided in the empty-looking dining room but it was scratched and the broken legs showed signs of clumsy repair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  Not even Melanie's influence could repair the break of that gossamer thread.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  And Melanie, bewildered, broken hearted but still loyal, did not try to repair it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  Miss Sherwin's trying to repair the holes in this barnacle-covered ship of a town by keeping busy bailing out the water.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
8  On the contrary, there was an air of neglect about his person, like that which might have proceeded from great and recent exertion, which he had not yet found leisure to repair.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  I seek to repair what is amiss, if I possibly can; and I hope you will assist me in a good spirit, Bounderby, for I have been very much distressed.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
10  No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Let him carry a written order to De Bracy's company of Free Companions, to repair instantly to their master's aid.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  It was in perfect repair: till the war the Weatherleys had lived in style there.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  It was necessary that he should immediately repair to Rome, whither this man had sped for health, and where he had died, leaving his affairs in great confusion.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
14  A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
15  Her daughter, aged fifteen, was among the punters, and notified with a covert glance the cheatings of the poor people who tried to repair the cruelties of fate.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  I thought I knew quite a lot about electrical things, but when I was given this old radio to repair, I had to admit that I'd met my match.
2  I'm not going to let him repair my bike again because he made a really bad job of it last time.
3  He mixed up some plaster to repair the wall.
4  The watch mechanism is extremely intricate and very difficult to repair.
5  I have to tell you that the machine is beyond repair.
6  She paid the repair bill as a salve to her conscience.
7  The man estimated for the repair of the car.
8  It is infinitely easier to drive a car than to repair it.
9  The human body has an amazing capacity to repair itself.
10  A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.
11  We clean and repair the machines as a matter of routine.
12  The bridge is falling down and will need a million dollars to repair it.
13  Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.
14  The engineer is coming to repair our phone tomorrow morning.
15  We are at present in correspondence with the company on the matter of our estimate for the repair of the bridge.