Sample Sentences for
replenish
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    At the end of November, he paddled through Yuma, where he stopped long enough to replenish his provisions and send a postcard to Westerberg in care of Glory House, the Sioux Falls work-release facility where Westerberg was doing time.  (source)
    replenish = replace what was used up of
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    For the Solidarity Service had given as well as taken, drawn off only to replenish.  (source)
    replenish = replace what was taken or used up
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    Perhaps before long one or two could be chosen to go back to the store by the river and replenish our supplies.  (source)
    replenish = replace what was used up of
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    The wretched insects sucked life from him faster than he could replenish it.  (source)
    replenish = replace what was taken
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    His stomach full, his energy replenished, his mind thankful for a few moments of silence, he decided that from then on he'd quit whining and deal with things.  (source)
    replenished = restored
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    Mrs. Merriweather had run out of air, I judged, and was replenishing her supply while Mrs. Farrow composed herself to speak.  (source)
    replenishing = replacing what was used up
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    A fleet replenishment vessel is already en route to rendezvous with us there.†  (source)
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    A waiter appears from nowhere and replenishes my glass, and I take a sip.†  (source)
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    I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession, Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines, Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth, The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.†  (source)
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    He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began-more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety.  (source)
    unreplenished = not restored
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreplenished means not and reverses the meaning of replenished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.†  (source)
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    Periodically, rain replenished the water tins, but only partway.  (source)
    replenished = replaced what was used up
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    Conversely, when a rain squall is replenishing your freshwater supplies, you also know that the humidity will affect your cured provisions and that some will probably go bad, turning pasty and green.  (source)
    replenishing = replacing what was used up
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