requite
Example Sentences
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The act doesn’t requite that he sign the letter.
From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2019
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
Replied Odysseus: “The young men, yes. And may the gods requite those insolent puppies for the game they play in a home not their own. They have no decency.”
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Vocabulary lists containing requite
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Beowulf
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