Example sentences for: reiterate

How can you use “reiterate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Continuing to dispute the theory that the shroud wrapped Jesus' body are scientists at the University of Arizona, who reiterate the results of their 1988 carbon dating of the cloth: The cloth is no more than 600 years old, they say.

  • Rather than reiterate her testimony, I will emphasize just a few of her key points.

  • However, while I agree that security is a serious issue, I reiterate that the hysterics with which security stories are played out in the media are generally overblown.

  • Before getting into that, I feel compelled to reiterate my perpetual complaint about the prospective users of such books: in order to look something up in a reference book of any kind—dictionary, thesaurus, usage book, encyclopedia—a person must either acknowledge that he does not know something or, at least, have doubts about the information he already possesses.

  • Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.


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