How to Use repetitious in a Sentence

repetitious

adjective
  • He was bored by the repetitious work.
  • Her writing can be repetitious.
  • This loud bird can be heard singing all through the year—its three-note call repetitious and bright.
    — Christopher Gangemi, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • That which drags on or is repetitious will soon be abandoned.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The repetitious questions did not throw him off his course.
    — Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The result is tedious and makes this short play feel very long and repetitious.
    — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 11 June 2018
  • Over the course of a repetitious goal-to-go drill, Mahomes caught fire.
    — Sam McDowell 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And not all of the political tones the show strikes are quite so repetitious.
    — Daniel D’addario, Time, 26 Sep. 2017
  • And the repetitious scenery of Day 1 soon faded into the past.
    — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Schneider’s lyrics can get a little repetitious, but no more so than today’s radio hits.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2017
  • Her use of the hooked rug invokes hours of repetitious labor spent following a pattern.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The repetitious videos seemed to be designed for busy voters not glued to their seats in the Senate chamber.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Stan becomes convinced that his way out of this repetitious hell is to alter the outcome of Harambe’s death.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 3 July 2021
  • Most offices have a lot of work involving tasks that are simple, tedious, and repetitious.
    — Kathy Leake, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • The casino made millions of francs that day on the gamblers’ belief that randomness could not be repetitious.
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Prescod’s voice is spirited and engaging but can be repetitious, and her pacing is a bit sluggish.
    — Nneka McGuire, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The aftermath of loss is exhausting, repetitious, and often very, very dull—and so is training for a marathon.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
  • The books were plotless, littered with mind-numbing, repetitious quasi-sentences.
    — I-Huei Go, The New Yorker, 5 June 2019
  • Instead of a repetitious tossing of Pokéballs, each Trace calls for a different sort of spell.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • Because that character in the Richard Curtis films was a bit repetitious.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The complaints about Lucky Charms have been magically repetitious, so to speak.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Without the freedom to learn the individual quirks of each game at their pace, players are instead forced to learn in a repetitious trial by fire.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
  • And the radio's repetitious selection doesn't allow for the discovery of new songs either.
    — Amanda Greene, Woman's Day, 31 Aug. 2010
  • The Big Boys follow the repetitious outrages on social media.
    — Armond White, National Review, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Irakli’s search is less mission than meander, one that only lags during a slightly repetitious late stretch, before Koberidze gets us back.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Its repetitious address chimes with its subject’s views on geography and belonging.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Beck did so with the help of a personal partnership and the clever use of a single repetitious sequence that listeners can use to track the film’s distinctive hero through his score.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
  • All those traditional whines and whimpers about how the guild and other pre-Oscar awards ruin everything with repetitious wins have been silenced.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Other once-promising supporting players are reduced to repetitious stalling patterns.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This autobiographical family tragedy is hard to do well — four hours of theater, self-indulgent, hairy, and repetitious.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017

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