Example sentences for: repetition

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

  • Once something is published by anyone, it becomes fair game for analysis and repetition.

  • Eventually I concluded even the correct word would have become maddening from repetition, unrelieved by a synonym or circumlocution.

  • Critics have three main complaints: 1) his shoddy economics (see Paul Krugman in the Washington Post and in Slate); 2) his tired prescriptions--regulation, taxation, and protectionism; 3) his continued bashing of the Federal Reserve Board (a repetition of the theme of his 799-page Secrets of the Temple ). "This is a book that graduate students and coffeehouse dissidents everywhere will enjoy," says Mead.

  • One of the characteristics of both proverbs and aphorisms is repetition of syllabic structure.

  • This usage points to yadda yadda yadda 's larger social significance: It suggests that an ever-larger percentage of the content of everyday communication can be correctly anticipated--probably owing in part to the sheer repetition of words and arguments in the various public media.


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