How to Use repository in a Sentence

repository

noun
Definition of repositorynext
Synonyms for repositorynext
  • He is the repository of many secrets.
  • She is the repository of her family's history.
  • 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
  • Vyzmazal explains how to do this in his GitHub repository for the project.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The talk took place in August, but the researchers' slides and repository have recently made the rounds.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The study examined PyPI, which is just one of many open source repositories.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Bakewell, who mostly lives in London, did the bulk of her research at repositories like the British Library.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • Now, where does your phone, the repository of all these essentials, sit?
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The first big cargoes didn’t leave facilities on the Gulf Coast (close to the Permian Basin, one of the largest repositories of gas in the world) until 2016.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • My intimate journal, the repository of my deepest shames, had talked back to me.
    — Adam Dalva, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Both tools are based on large language models (LLMs) that have been trained on massive code repositories.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is because the AI had been trained on hundreds of billions of words scraped from the internet—a vast repository of human language.
    — Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In Wuhan, the central city where Covid emerged three years ago, media reported on Friday that the local blood repository had just 4,000 units, enough to last two days.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2022
  • 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 all-day, all-night restaurant was a repository of lovely young waitresses.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Banga knows the value of the bank’s vast but underused repository of data.
    — Jendayi Frazer, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2023
  • His team bought stars from two different online stores and used data gathered in the process to build a model to detect fake stars in GitHub repositories.
    — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the most distinctive items in the library are viewable online through an online repository.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.
    — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Women didn’t serve in the military at the time, and, at first, there seemed to be no large repository of measurements of the female population.
    — Heather Radke, Time, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Other such reviews exist, the Cochrane Library being a repository of many of them.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Inside, the seats remain the large, comfortable, heated repositories that larger drivers have come to know and love.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
  • At its best, Facebook is a digital museum, a repository for the milestones of life.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The mine waste would be excavated from the Church Rock Mine site and placed in a repository to be constructed on top of the existing mill tailings impoundment at the mill site.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'repository.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: