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How to use repair in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Repair means to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. Example: “How can I repair this wrong?”

Examples of repair by meaning

verbTo restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

  • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship
  • to repair a shattered fortune

verbTo make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

  • to repair a loss or damage
  • How can I repair this wrong?

nounThe act of repairing something.

  • I took the car to the workshop for repair.

nounAn act of correcting ("repairing") a mistake in communication.

  • This developing awareness is evident in sequences during which children provide repairs in response to indications that a message has not been understood.1986 March, Bonnie Brinton, Martin Fujiki, Diane Frome Loeb, and Erika Winkler, “Development of Conversational Repair Strategies in...
  • The ability to participate in conversational repair sequences constitutes an integral part of the language acquisition process (Gallagher, 1977; Garvey, 1975).2002 April, Tova Most, “The Use of Repair Strategies by Children With and Without Hearing Impairment”, in Speech & Hearing Services in...
  • Similarly, Yoder et al. (1994) found that repair requests from adults who were attuned to the topic at hand were more likely to trigger repair from children.2024 January, Xiaoyan Li, Yonghan Peng, Xinjun Zheng, “The Association Between Mother’s Descriptive Language and Children with Autism’s...

nounThe result of repairing something.

  • If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.

nounThe condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

  • The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.
  • The 1300 class (Nos. 1301-16), one of which was damaged beyond repair in an accident, are Co-Cos, weigh 111 tons and have a top speed of 85 m.p.h.1962 March, J. M. Tolson, “The Netherlands Railways today—I”, in Modern Railways, page 172
  • Thirteen houses were damaged beyond repair, and much of the rest of the town suffered broken windows and lost slates.2020 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43

nounThe act of repairing or resorting to a place.

  • our annual repair to the mountains

verbTo transfer oneself to another place.

  • to repair to sanctuary for safety
  • That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 47

More sentences with repair

  • Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.From the entry quotation
  • I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.From the entry square
  • This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.From the entry meet
  • They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.From the entry put
  • The car could not be repaired in time for the race and did not run.From the entry run
  • I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.From the entry crash
  • The sketchy repair job did not look like it would hold.From the entry sketchy
  • Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.From the entry stage
  • It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!From the entry fix
  • Some of the pottery is so smashed that it's not feasible even to do a restorative repair.From the entry smashed
  • Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?From the entry DIY
  • The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.From the entry crux
  • I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.From the entry literally
  • In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs.From the entry take in
  • The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.From the entry scope
  • The company made good the damage by paying my repair costs.From the entry make good
  • The company made good on the damage by paying my repair costs.From the entry make good
  • The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof.From the entry funding
  • Repairs will be done tomorrow so meantime restrain from using the bath.From the entry meantime
  • Although he failed, the prime minister made a bona fide attempt to repair the nation's damaged economy.From the entry bona fide
  • The repairs on this nuclear reactor have burned out every welder in the province.From the entry burn out
  • He was not looking forward to having to repair the downed power lines after the wind storm.From the entry look forward to
  • We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings.From the entry flushing
  • To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.From the entry disassemble
  • After the accident I contacted the insurer who paid for the repairs.From the entry insurer

Meaning of repair

  1. verb To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
  2. verb To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
  3. noun The act of repairing something.

Full definition of repair

Questions about repair in a sentence

How do you use repair in a sentence?
Repair is used as a verb and noun. For example: “How can I repair this wrong?”
What is a short sentence with repair?
“to repair a shattered fortune”
What does repair mean?
Repair means to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: repair (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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