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Definition of "repasts" [repasts]

  • Plural form of repast. (noun)
  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repast. (verb)

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Use "repasts" in a sentence
  • "Like Liberian wedding receptions, the repasts are the best attended of all the events—you could have two hundred people at your actual funeral, but eight hundred will show up at the repast afterward to eat your palm butter and rice."
  • "As we ring in a new year, and resolve to lose the extra pounds we packed on over the holidays, it's all too easy to forget the millions of people around the world who couldn't afford holiday repasts and are undernourished."
  • "He would find them looking impatiently at classroom clocks, unable to keep their feet still beneath their desks, or sitting atop vinyl-covered swivel stools, savoring their own tasteless and puny repasts, or intertwined in bed, making all the chest and throat noises of aggression."
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