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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The learning comes through repetition, not intensity.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
This elliptical, enigmatic sentence, with its palindromic form (not unlike that of the Heart Sutra), signals the main thrust of Pau’s work, which employs structures of looping, repetition, and recursion to explore the space of ambiguity and uncertainty.
—Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026
The wall displayed a careful repetition and symmetry using pieces of the vertebral column.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
But like so much else of what The Boys has been doing in its fifth and final season, the repetition of this series trope feels less like a callback than a fallback.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
This elliptical, enigmatic sentence, with its palindromic form (not unlike that of the Heart Sutra), signals the main thrust of Pau’s work, which employs structures of looping, repetition, and recursion to explore the space of ambiguity and uncertainty.
—Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026
The wall displayed a careful repetition and symmetry using pieces of the vertebral column.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
But like so much else of what The Boys has been doing in its fifth and final season, the repetition of this series trope feels less like a callback than a fallback.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for repetition
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“Repetition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repetition. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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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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