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- noun Plural form of
repast . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
repast .
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Examples
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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.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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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.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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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.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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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.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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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.
Michael Zacka: Global Family Day: Focusing on World Hunger Michael Zacka 2011
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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.
Michael Zacka: Global Family Day: Focusing on World Hunger Michael Zacka 2011
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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.
Michael Zacka: Global Family Day: Focusing on World Hunger Michael Zacka 2011
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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.
Michael Zacka: Global Family Day: Focusing on World Hunger Michael Zacka 2011
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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.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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As Philo, envoy to the emperor Caligula, observed: "The couches upon which the Romans recline at their repasts shine with gold and pearls."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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