Examples of repetition in a Sentence
Sometimes repetition is necessary to drive a point home.
Children's songs involve lots of repetition.
I quit my job at the factory because I hated the mindless repetition.
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Take a one- or two-minute break between repetitions, repeating one or two times.
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Dana Santas, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
While some people initially took Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state as a joke, his constant repetition means Canadians are no longer laughing, Kahlon said.
—Josh Fellman, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
But within that repetition, there are degrees, there are changes.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
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Dana Santas, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
While some people initially took Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state as a joke, his constant repetition means Canadians are no longer laughing, Kahlon said.
—Josh Fellman, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
But within that repetition, there are degrees, there are changes.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Repetition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repetition. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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repetition
noun
rep·e·ti·tion
ˌrep-ə-ˈtish-ən 
1
a
: the act or an instance of repeating
b
: a motion or exercise (as a push-up) that is repeated and usually counted
2
: something repeated
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