How to Use repository in a Sentence

repository

noun
  • He is the repository of many secrets.
  • She is the repository of her family's history.
  • Baseboards become a repository for the dust and hair that your broom and mop don't reach.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Now, where does your phone, the repository of all these essentials, sit?
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Ryan Tedder’s hard drive is a repository of some of the biggest hits of the past two decades.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Her work and life supplied a deep cultural repository that could at least be savored by her fans.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The best leadership books are no longer just repositories of tactics.
    — Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Even if many items are recovered, repositories for them will need to be rebuilt, in some cases from scratch.
    — Tim Arango, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The interviews will serve as a repository of language and culture, and the way that both have evolved over the past decades.
    — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026
  • One of the key purposes of this record is to function as a sort of repository for my anxieties.
    — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • My intimate journal, the repository of my deepest shames, had talked back to me.
    — Adam Dalva, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Vyzmazal explains how to do this in his GitHub repository for the project.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The all-day, all-night restaurant was a repository of lovely young waitresses.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Her eldest — the repository for her first memories of motherhood, who changed the shape of her days — is gone.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • And since states have such a patchwork of laws, researchers – and firearms shops – feel those shops can be the best repository for outside storage.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • This novel is a repository for those pressing questions.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Many auto parts places will pour the contents into their giant waste-oil repositories, then give you back your bucket.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The talk took place in August, but the researchers' slides and repository have recently made the rounds.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Banga knows the value of the bank’s vast but underused repository of data.
    — Jendayi Frazer, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2023
  • Fees run high, too, because the investor is paying a premium for the safe storage of their gold in a repository.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Here, the thick butcher block countertops act as a fitting repository for an old sitz bath that has been repurposed as the sink.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 22 June 2023
  • Would-be readers are still going to have to trace new papers to the repository of the agency that funded the work in order to read them.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 6 Oct. 2022
  • There was no central repository for how the club operated.
    — Shivaas Gulati, Sportico.com, 12 May 2026
  • The study examined PyPI, which is just one of many open source repositories.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the most distinctive items in the library are viewable online through an online repository.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Online repositories can make the works fully available.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 2 Jan. 2026
  • What once was a horse stable and repository for the cheap wine given to laborers has been converted into a haute bar with a glass top.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The findings are described in a paper on the arXiv pre-print paper repository.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • The stands serve as sites of passing assembly—roadside water coolers—and repositories of gossip and news.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

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