requite

Example Sentences

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But still I crane my neck and track them at every opportunity, hoping I suppose to requite their deep indifference for me with my high regard for them.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013

I think that’s every girl’s dream, that this punk who doesn’t really like us and doesn’t really requite our love, that he’s going to change all the sudden.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2013

Therefore, in "the world as it is," you must requite evil with lesser evil.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2011

Did Mr. Anderson requite Ms. McKinney’s love, as she insists?

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011

The powers of darkness would requite it, too, my mother’s parting curse would call hell’s furies to punish me, along with the scorn of men.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer