REPEAT in a Sentence

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255 example sentences for REPEAT, such as:

1. In short, I repeat my question.
2. Declamations, repeat the foolish.
3. The pattern is repeated many times over.
4. This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past.
5. They did not require him to repeat it twice.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPEAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
repeat
 v.  do over; say, state, or perform again
 n.  an action, event, or other thing that occurs or is done again
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In short, I repeat my question.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  For, in short, we repeat it, men wish to be pushed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
3  I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
4  Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the prefect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
5  Declamations, repeat the foolish.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
6  What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple matter to Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
7  Nothing of it, we repeat, exists to-day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
8  Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
9  We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an austere interlude in a mournful drama.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10  I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns young girls, it concerns little children.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
11  The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we repeat, seemed very calm within.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
12  This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
13  sworn to secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
14  They did not require him to repeat it twice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER TH...
15  I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  Unemployment seems to be rising, despite repeated assurances to the contrary.
17  Jones was ordered off in the second half after repeated fouls.
18  The medical tests were inconclusive, and will need to be repeated.
19  The pattern is repeated many times over.
20  She repeated several times that she didn't intend to marry.
21  Skill is acquired through repeated practice, and practice makes perfect.
22  Despite my repeated assurances, Rob still looked very nervous.
23  Despite the Government's repeated assurances to the contrary, taxation has risen over the past decade.
24  The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless.
25  Suddenly there was a flash of light and Tom came tearing by him: "Run!" said he; "run, for your life!" He needn't have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered.
26  The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her.
27  "The trial cannot proceed," said the King in a very grave voice, "until all the jurymen are back in their proper places -- ALL," he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said do.
28  The girl repeated the poem after I had read it twice.
29  He repeated her remarks verbatim in these months; when do we hear some new idea?
30  Aumann showed that peaceful cooperation can emerge in a repeated game, even when the players have strong short-term conflicting interests.