How to Use repurchase in a Sentence

repurchase

verb
  • The firm didn’t repurchase any of its shares in the fourth quarter.
    — Josh Fellman, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2025
  • And for this price tag, That Girl will be repurchased over and over.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 July 2024
  • Less debt and more cash flow will prompt the company to repurchase shares.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Berkshire again did not repurchase any of its shares in the fourth quarter.
    — Josh Funk, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • This company has repurchased about half is stock in the past decade.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • One way is to repurchase shares, which leaves the remaining shares more valuable.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Shippin has repurchased this oxblood Olive & June set three times.
    — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2025
  • One new tax applies to companies that repurchase their stock.
    — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • How will the new tax on stock buybacks affect company repurchase plans in the years ahead?
    — Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The owner accepted, and the city of Boise repurchased the land.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The company could use those cash proceeds to repurchase its own stock, which trades at a hefty discount to its sum of the parts.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
  • That's higher than the $40 million repurchased in the third quarter.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, with a plan to repurchase them at lower prices and pocket the difference.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 9 May 2022
  • Winston eventually repurchased the piece and sold it in the brooch to its current owner.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2025
  • If the trailer tow module is not installed in a vehicle, dealers will repurchase it.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The lawsuit, which seeks to have the city repurchase all the medallions plus pay damages, is slated for trial this summer.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • To exit a short position, shares sometimes need to be repurchased at a much higher price than sold because of a lack of stock to buy.
    — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • After the initial buy, many others are also loving the eye cream enough to repurchase thereafter.
    — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
  • After the initial buy, many others are also loving the eye cream enough to repurchase thereafter.
    — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
  • After the initial buy, many others are also loving the eye cream enough to repurchase thereafter.
    — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Renault could then repurchase the stake within six years, Renault said in announcing the deal.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • The trial could have wide-ranging effects on home equity theft and the way that at least a dozen states repurchase people's houses.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 May 2023
  • The siblings later repurchased the company, but Kane has not shown or sold a collection since then.
    — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The company has used its healthy free cash flows to repurchase 40% of its outstanding shares over the past 10 years.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The company repurchased 3,018,700 shares in the first half of the year.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Short-sellers are traders who bet that stocks will fall by borrowing shares and selling them high with the belief that they can be repurchased later at a lower cost.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Also, a contract with Weidner gives the county the right to repurchase the property if the project falls through.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Things are easily misplaced, costing you more time to look for them and, potentially, money to repurchase them.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Investors will also be disappointed to learn that Berkshire didn’t repurchase any of its own shares in the quarter.
    — Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The family is due to go shopping to repurchase everything Flopsy needs.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026

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