How To Use Repeating In A Sentence

They do not strengthen their case by repeating their horror. Times, Sunday Times
The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
Let's use what power we have as consumers, then, to prevent a dangerous cycle from repeating itself.
Better not to ignore the past but learn from it instead. Otherwise, history has a way of repeating itself.
Taking that idea a step further, we envisioned a ticker tape effect repeating a message spelled out in pixelated type. Mosaic Tiles : A Fresh Bathroom Look

One of these went past me as I stood by the roadside, rising very gradually into the air and repeating all the way, _Chip, chip, chip, chip_, till at last he broke into the warble, which was a full half longer than usual. Birds in the Bush
Hero gasped, he started to run to the box, uncaring of noise, the same thought repeating in his head: please no!
I can imagine a bushbaby, under attack, repeating the immortal words of Charlton Heston, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” Waldo Jaquith - I, for one, welcome our spear-wielding chimp overlords.
Incidentally, I look forward to the time when people stop repeating the baseless clintonian arguments and the dems unite. Four Florida Members Of Congress Who Backed Hillary Come Out For Obama
A judicial committee rejected his allegations and recommended that criminal charges of libel should be brought against anyone repeating them. Times, Sunday Times
The patient was started on chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and dacarbazine administered as a continuous 7-day infusion, repeating every 21 days.
A repeating sequence of fining-upward sediments commonly capped by coaly layers is indicative of fluvial sediments.
The PM is repeating the same final heave that got him into No10 five years ago. The Sun
Martin and Jack played for almost two hours, and then they started repeating the chorus of the last song, except with free-styled lyrics, over and over and over again.
Screen filled up with a strange, red lettering, repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating. BEHINDLINGS
He commences slowly, as if repeating the syllable, _de de de de de de d 'd' d 'd' d 'd' d 'r' r 'r'_, -- increasing in rapidity, and at the same time rising as it were by semi-tones, or chromatically, to about a major fourth on the scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
Some experiences should remain unsullied by repeating them. Shane, Revisited
Having already reached safe ground, his father hesitates for some time before attempting a rescue, more or less repeating the behavior of the two previous instances.
Those antibiotics must be kicking in because his sentences are fractured and he has a habit of repeating a single syllable. Times, Sunday Times
It features dreadfully long and boring ‘action’ sequences comprised mostly of repeating footage of men firing pistols in the dark.
He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.' Moon Lore
How long can we keep treading cultural water before we start repeating ourselves?
But high, blacked-out ceilings and a pattern of exposed concrete cylinders are balanced by a repeating carpet pattern.
A hypnotic repeating diamond structure called a lamella acts as both roof and wall motif for the shelter. Hale County Animal Shelter by (New) Rural Studio | Inhabitat
Similarly, you can't make unfunny dialogue funny by repeating it over and over at increasing volume.
Am I repeating myself ? ie Did I say this before?
The opposition have been repeating their calls for the president's resignation.
He logs his experiences and thoughts on computer by event and refers back to them in an attempt to avoid repeating mistakes.
Even Rod has now been moved to join in with a startling attack on Ms Mone, which does not bear repeating in a family newspaper.
In a syndiotactic macromolecule, the configurational repeating unit consists of two configurational base units that are enantiomeric.
It's worth repeating because the Jayhawks were labeled as "bunked Undefined
I was (but am no longer since it seemed just futile) chatting in one forum and suggested to some of the people there that instead of just repeating their (imho recycled and contextless) arguments against AGW in discussion forums, they should actually refocus a bit and try to publish their findings if they really have something new to add to the scientific debate. Advanced Trolling 101
What seems a random pattern of painstakingly rendered cuts in the paper is in fact a nine-times repeating pattern made from a rubber matrix print containing the Pollock-like marks.
No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
Only an emotionally incompetent person would persist in repeating the pass over and over again. Times, Sunday Times
Even the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned that night before the Privy Council to answer for his conduct, came back contented; observing to all his friends that he had got off very well with a reprimand, and repeating with huge satisfaction his memorable defence before the Council, ‘that such was his temerity, he thought death would have been his portion.’ Barnaby Rudge
Also, templates have been stretched beyond their original design, which is like using a system for automatically choosing the right material to use as mortar to fill a gap, with support for including layers of other materials such as damp-proof courses, to build entire pillars by telling them to fill a very large gap with repeating layers of concrete. Snell-Pym » C++
To some extent this striking outperformance of tech shares in particular reflects an increasingly widespread conviction that history is repeating itself and that we are on the verge of seeing 1998 redux.
ATCC 10987 and B. anthracis was the presence of a repeating unit consisting of a HexNAc3 trisaccharide backbone in which two of the three Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
The chemist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrançois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone! Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
Keep on repeating them to yourself over and over again so that they become firmly imprinted in the subconscious mind. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
The Tenors answer "In quo salus" and the whole choir "Venite adoremus" when all prostrate themselves except the celebrant who, advancing to the Gospel side of the altar uncovers the right arm of the Cross, repeating in a louder voice "Ecce lignum crucis," the choir responding as before. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
But repeating the trick is often the hardest part. Times, Sunday Times
Freud concluded that both neurotics who had been exposed to shock and children who had been exposed to distress were attempting to master their unpleasant experiences by repeating them in dream and play.
Without repeating too much of what I wrote there seven years ago, I want to add some highlights that I only alluded to or didn't have the space to discuss in that essay.
Better not to ignore the past but learn from it instead. Otherwise, history has a way of repeating itself.
He denied it was duplicating work already being done by Hull Council, or repeating expensive studies done in the past.
We give him minimal credit if he is simply repeating what another speaker has just said.
Breathe naturally, lout slowly, silently repeating your focus word or phrase every time you exhale.
The columns shift in a laterally repeating rainbow sequence of 50 colors taken from an ink-marker assortment on a white ground.
The list of mistakes they tried to avert is familiar, but it bears repeating because of the fresh opportunity to learn from it. Getting Out Right
But repeating the trick is often the hardest part. Times, Sunday Times
Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
We can call in recursiveness and say that standard engineering proceeds down the hierarchy from an overall concept to individual assemblies, to their subassemblies, and to their individual parts, repeating the design process for each of these in turn. The Nature of Technology
Finally, why is the media and conservatives repeating the discredited bird-brained charge that Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate? Easter Lemming Liberal News
By this, I have always meant as at "Qumran" -- the name scholars give to the subject of "the Dead Sea Scrolls" to avoid repeating this tedious phraseology -- it being the location of the River Wadi emptying into the Dead Sea where the Scrolls were found what the documents themselves say and not the more imprecise conclusions of paleography, archaeology or even AMS carbon dating, such as these may be. Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
The consequences for the French Army are too well known to need repeating here.
She sounded like she was repeating something that had been dunned into her again and again, and seemed bamboozled over that bit of pink stone! The Pink Dress
The PM is repeating the same final heave that got him into No10 five years ago. The Sun
It means that the old cliche about history repeating itself until its lessons are learned should be taken seriously.
She kept repeating his name softly over and over again.
She kept repeating his name softly over and over again.
Oh golly freeman is repeating what Jon Stewart said last night. Think Progress » Tea Party divide: Some complain of being ‘ignored’ by RNC, while others warn of being ‘hijacked by GOP.’
But are there enough resources to play quality Kannada music without repeating oneself too much?
Halfway up the meadow she turned and walked unhesitatingly into the woods, with the familiarity of someone repeating an oft-travelled route. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle.
Whenever he took a car ride, he would start saying the word "dah," repeating it over and over again as we strapped him into his car seat, "Dah dah dah, goo, dah dah, big-dah, big-dah. John Medina, Ph.D.: 'Parentese': Can Speaking To Your Baby This Way Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO)
Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
He kept repeating the phrase 'bigging up'. Times, Sunday Times
For months now, regime spokesmen have been repeating the absurd allegation that unrest is due to external agitation. Times, Sunday Times
He scoffs at neo-bohemian escapism in ‘What Are We Looking For,’ repeating the title in a glazed-over voice amid detuned horn hits.
In order to avoid repeating all voters have to be registered in the district.
As, by the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity; so, by being able to repeat the idea of any length of duration we have in our minds, with all the endless addition of number, we come by the idea of eternity. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
The 10-canvas Sequence pushes this logic further, repeating forms in positive and negative, plan and projection.
In matters less material Madame d'Alberg took as director the great authority of Shakspeare, and none can tell how many countless times she justified herself by repeating in the most suasory tone this little extract from Hamlet: Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
Was DeGuerin knowingly lying or simply repeating bad or misinterpreted info that he was fed? Think Progress » BREAKING: DeLay’s Lawyer Lies About MoveOn
Villa play away to City again tomorrow hopeful of repeating their cup performance. Times, Sunday Times
Chabrol indulges in random camera movements and bizarre cuts out of a fear of repeating himself. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Aaron Johnson Kicks Ass in "Nowhere Boy"
Pros: Familiar interface; syncing between users; nonmodal info panel; flexible calendar views; repeating to do items; snooze button. Macworld UK News
And, you know, a lot of people have been concerned about video-based training for kids with autism because of the concern that they will fall into a pattern of -- it ` s called echolalia, and that is the repeating that you ` re talking about. CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2008
The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
The show's unique format relied on the presence of repeating characters, all of whom had deep backstories that had been developed over years of programming.
During the closing weeks of the campaign, a pastoral letter was read from pulpits in Catholic churches repeating the ominous suggestion of excommunication.
The idea of repeating variations on a single geometric form in a building at all scales from the overall site plan to interior ornamental detail was central to Wright's concept of an organic architecture.
She knew that she could press ahead - and try to pass a retest in a month or two - but faculty members encouraged her to think about repeating her second-year coursework instead.
For fear of repeating the mistakes of 1848, Marx paradoxically would have the working class draw its ‘poetry’ only from the future, from the promise of a classless society.
I was first confused, then enraged, as he bobbed in the waves repeating his taunting question.
Repeating the submaximal test after a few weeks is a good way to gauge progress and increased aerobic capacity in those who are exercising on a regular basis. Hold it!
The show started with fart noises and endless references to "winning" - and ended with the troubled actor drinking from a sippy cup and repeating the word "duh. NY Daily News
They are designed to be cut at regular intervals (often indicated by a vertical row of a small scissors included in the repeating pattern), resulting in scarves of a standard size.
The rotating square and triangle arrangements by pasting octahedra onto the rotating triangles arrangement, above or below depending on colour, and then repeating this basic unit in planes. IMechanica - Comments
In the meantime, half of the original sentence will be added when the parolee is convicted again repeating a crime.
In 1896, the African army of Menelik II was armed with modern repeating rifles and resoundingly defeated the invading Italian army at the Battle of Adua (Adowa). G. Africa, 1795-1917
The pain of gastralgia is sometimes allayed by using half a teaspoonful of subcarbonate of bismuth, and repeating the dose, if the attack is not relieved. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Repeating these fairy tales does no one any good (and, moreover, misinforms your readers).
With injuries starting to take hold, do you see him repeating his title triumph? NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
He used a larger back porch as inspiration, repeating its columns, railings, and even the roof pitch.
Better not to ignore the past but learn from it instead. Otherwise, history has a way of repeating itself.
Hardware and software - metal and light and sound - mingled in endlessly surprising ways (though the projections and audio ran on a repeating loop).
She was particularly perplexed by geometry; she aroused our hilarity by always calling a parallelogram a parallel-O-gram, with a strong emphasis on the penultimate syllable; and she spent several days repeating over to herself, with a mystified countenance, the famous words, "The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs. Hawthorne and His Circle
My first attempt to decode malleus maleficarum focused on the repeating "mal". Malleus Maleficarum
But then, I found that when the first few chords would strike, I wouldn't skip ahead... until I was actively searching for the title amongst thousands, and repeating it over and over again. Archive 2005-11-01
He described the male call as a high-pitched whistle repeating a long, drawn-out KI-WI sound about 30 times.
Backformation is the reverse of adding an affix (i.e prefix or suffix) to a word (or if we’re not just talking about English, doing any kind of derivational operation on a word, whether it’s affixing, or repeating a portion of the word, or changing the vowels, etc.) The Volokh Conspiracy » Watch my Backformation
One strategy he often employed was to create repeating patterns of interlocking figures.
In literary conversations, he is only capable of repeating cant phrases and dropping names.
Any belief New Zealand had in repeating the victory they secured against Australia 12 months ago was shattered by the decisiveness of the Kangaroos' start to the second half.
The accuracy of Borda's repeating circle allowed distances to be found by surveying using triangulation.
With every second word unprintable, McCrimmon anathematized the world in general and Alexandria in particular for five full minutes without repeating himself once. The Lonely Sea
Instead he just made some intelligent statements, and let his boss blabber on and on repeating himself endlessly.
After repeating this feat two or three times, I "hulled" up a stone, which went clean over the tower, and then one, my right foot still on the ledge, which rising at least five yards above the steeple, did fall down just at my feet. The Pocket George Borrow
Nucleic acids are also polymers, composed of repeating units called nucleotides.
By repeating this drill, the swimmer should be encouraged to complete the second kick in order to generate enough power to recover the arms.
I recall the doomsaying PUMA-types who kept repeating "He is unelectable!!! TPM Track Composite: Obama Takes Big Lead In Post-Veep Debate Polls
By repeating vaporization and condensation, individual components in the solution can be recovered in a pure state.
Gro Harlem Brundtland is again charring the commission as she did the WCED, it seems as though history is repeating itself, with little learnt. WCED (1987) – Copenhagen (2009): Will we ever take the environment seriously? « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
Kids will practice repeating various rhythms as well as moving to the beat.
Our linguistic history is repeating itself in this latest verbal revolution.
The long drawn out "ahoy" had scarcely died on their lips before it was answered by an equally long blast from the whistle, to which they responded by repeating the hail at brief intervals, each answering blast of the whistle telling them that the boat was drawing nearer, until at length the faint loom of the boat showed in the darkness, and a lantern was suddenly held high above a man's head. In Search of El Dorado
When Belinda questioned Marriott more particularly about the strange hints which her lady had let fall, she with looks of embarrassment and horror declined repeating the words that had been said to her; yet persisted in asserting that Lady Delacour had been very _strange_ for these two or three days. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
Ventral epidermal cells secrete a segmentally repeating pattern of small hooks, called denticles, separated by expanses of naked cuticle.
If you blog for long enough, you're bound to start to repeating yourself sooner or later, right?
In fact, she thought he had listened more than once, she had been repeating herself. COFFIN IN FASHION
The only way to truly guarantee objectivity is to return to the very elements of scientific discovery and that is the element of reproducibility - anyone repeating the same experiment or analysing the same data set should be able to come to exactly the same results and conclusions. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Truth TOPS Bias at TOS Meeting
They are generally made of cotton, rayon, or a cotton-rayon blend, and include an overall pattern of repeating designs, often with a central medallion, surrounded by a decorative border.
When Ramses II was over eighty he celebrated his rejuvenation at the feast of Set, repeating it yearly until he was ninety and more, and displaying his power of rejuvenation to the Gods above in the Obelisks he regularly erected as a memorial, which the aged Pharaoh decorated with electrum at the top so that their brightness should pour over lands of Egypt when the sun was mirrored in them. Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs
Bottom line is, I use the term move 'em over and move 'em up," Pinkel said, repeating the same line he employs when discussing just about any injury that will effect playing time. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Repeating the word ‘field’ in the second clause, however, Warner balances it with form, alliteratively cinching together the natural ‘field’ with its scientific meanings.
And, notwithstanding Santayana's too-often repeated mot about forgetfulness and history repeating, it is sometimes possible to see in such repetition not error or futility but constancy.
He looked totally bewildered and kept on repeating, "What are you saying?"
Time to turn on the lights and watch them scurry back into the darkness … Their excessive postings and repeating their reich winged swill is all they have … So much hate, they truly are a miserable lot. Think Progress » Bush advised to ‘lawyer up.’
They do not strengthen their case by repeating their horror. Times, Sunday Times
Better not to ignore the past but learn from it instead. Otherwise, history has a way of repeating itself.
He closes the book, repeating the last passage and reveals a crude shiv. He slips the blade under his wristband and covers it with his sleeve.
Administrations make language of past Administrations on certain issues 'inoperative'. 15 years after Reagan no one was repeating his cant about "the beloved Holy Mujahadeen Freedom Fighters" of Afghanistan. "Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a 'great civilization'..."
This keeps things fresh and interesting -- I'm not particularly interested in repeating myself with regard to books, whether my own fiction or the anthologies I create with Ann, and I don't think Ann is, either. MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)
Scene repeating itself with slight variations of characters (hair color more platinum than dirty blonde, tie unloosened rather than removed, girl drinking a Jolly Rancher instead of a Grape Crush, etc).
The wooden hulls of the canoes would have bobbed on the desert of water, lapped by waves repeating and repeating the vastness of the earth in soft undulations.
For months now, regime spokesmen have been repeating the absurd allegation that unrest is due to external agitation. Times, Sunday Times
In pitting against himself those who had so powerfully succoured him in his misfortune, Condé ought at least to have drawn closer to the Court and had a serious understanding with the Queen; but he tergiversated, and at the end of some months of that wavering policy, he found himself standing unmasked between the Court and the Fronde, both equally discontented with him, repeating and exaggerating the blunder committed by Mazarin. Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
Crystal lattices consist of repeating units of a molecule, ion, or atom arranged in a symmetrical array.
He waited sometime before he was answered, repeating his summons violently at frequent intervals, and swearing irreligiously under his breath as he did so. Thelma
You fool," she kept repeating.
History is repeating itself; they are the grandchildren of first cousins. Times, Sunday Times
The call came from the Department of Dunning, a bewildered soul who kept repeating that our August payment was due even as I ventilated on the subject of the check the bank has acknowledged and, more important, cashed and, more broadly, the perfidy and general loathsomeness of her employer. Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME WEASEL UPDATE
Use it to create rapidly repeating musical phrases, grungy riffs, retro computer game effects, rolling basslines, off-the-wall rhythmic patterns, dub sirens, weird sci-fi effects, plus sounds yet undiscovered .... MATRIXSYNTH
The third movement is a rondo, which is a variation repeating itself over and over again.
Although, there are no mixing flaws, one could always criticize it for track selection and the fact that you know this CD is an exact replica of the set he is repeating city after city.
` ` Fear! '' said El Hakim, repeating the word disdainfully --- The Talisman
They're all terrified of repeating the mistakes of 2000 by making incorrect calls.
Miller photographs buildings from high angles to get repeating diagonals and pyramidlike forms, then manipulates this imagery so that it draws the eye inward or seems to project from the surface of the picture.
A good deal of the players returning to the house was bleeped out, so I can only assume that everyone was repeating "succubus" over and over. Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus.
He was also rumbled as an uninspiring public speaker who charged 190,000 for sometimes repeating an inane 30-minute lecture on leadership. Times, Sunday Times
July 16th, 2009 12: 34 pm ET lindsey graham is a bully! he looks like a fool repeating himself over an over. GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'
Patterns and Symmetry results from enquiry into the geometrical characteristics of regular-repeating patterns, and presents a selection of counterchange and other effects in a printed textile format.
He was also rumbled as an uninspiring public speaker who charged 190,000 for sometimes repeating an inane 30-minute lecture on leadership. Times, Sunday Times
The Arab states, which in 1973 imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the US, have not indicated any intention of repeating that action so far.
How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
‘Erik…’ she sighed for a long moment before repeating, ‘You aren't acting like yourself,’ she told me, worry in her voice.
Pianist Ahmad Jamal (a man even Miles Davis credited as a big influence) is now 81 – and he remains a genius at the art of motivic improvising, repeating a catchy theme (so listeners don't lose the plot) while transforming it with fresh melody. Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon – review
Emerald could see in years to come she would be repeating herself ad infinitum. YELLOW BIRD
She ran back and forth between the prow and the helm, repeating orders simply because she forgot she had issued them.
If I'm repeating myself, I haven't noticed it yet.
He told the inquiry that he used his fake sheikh persona to get evidence of people repeating crimes that he had been told they had previously committed. Times, Sunday Times
Rinse collard greens thoroughly in lukewarm water, repeating, if necessary, to remove all dirt and grit.
Training too hard or repeating the same routine without variation can lead to fascial adhesions or injury. Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues
It's more the master showman's interest in not repeating himself, especially with copycats the world over reiterating the show he helmed a decade ago.
I examined the magnitude of the aggressive response during a habituation phase that consisted of repeating the stimulus period as a continuous loop.
The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
Unblinking, he stared into the fire, mouthing incoherent words, repeating the unfamiliar syllables through limp, drooling flews.
No, we are not repeating ourselves - this one is creatine titrate, not tartrate.
So the reasons for and against the evolution theory almost balance one another; and it is not improbable that the hypothesis of an origin of species through development will have to share its authority with the hypothesis of a descent of species through heterogenetic generation, as well as with the hypothesis of a primitive generation of lower organisms, still repeating itself at a later time. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
The traditional method of making homeopathic dilutions is successively diluting the ‘active ingredient’ 1 to 10, and repeating.
No toughness, no championship," he said, repeating one of his go-to tenets—and the phrase defensive end Justin Tuck whispered to his should've-been-hobbled coach that Christmas Eve night when the up-and-down Giants finally seemed to find themselves. The Tough Got Going
We thought their language more harsh than that of the islanders in the South Sea, and they were continually repeating the word _chercau_, which we imagined to be a term expressing admiration, by the manner in which it was uttered: They also cried out, when they saw any thing new, _Cher, tut, tut, tut, tut_! which probably had a similar signification. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
While Scotland will be nervous of repeating their previous ignominious performance, at least Vogts' men will have their supporters behind them.
He stressed it was vital to avoid repeating the Canadian experience when years of overfishing exhausted cod stocks in the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
He kept repeating the same thing, that it had nothing to do with him.
The basic paradiddle is played by the hands with the following repeating pattern: ParaMonday « Fairegarden
Nylon is made of repeating units with amide linkages between them: hence it is frequently referred to as a polyamide.
There is a nice message about the perils of wanting to be popular and its consequences, but Lowe belabors it, addressing it repetitively, repeating it over and over get the point! making the book seem like one of those not-very-special After School Specials. Archive 2010-01-01
Many monstrosities, such as fasciated branches, pitchers, split leaves, peloric flowers, and others constitute such ever-sporting varieties, repeating their anomalies year by year and generation after generation, changing as much as possible, but remaining absolutely true within their limits as long as the variety exists. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
The evolution of the universe could be cyclic, with regularly repeating periods of expansion and contraction.
At the risk of repeating myself, the game has to wean itself, and its players, away from its addition to grog - grog sponsors, grog nights, grog everything!
Unclean, unclean, unclean, unclean: Sulla kept repeating the word over and over as he hurried home, there to bathe and clothe himself this time in toga praetexta-a man did not have more than one set of triumphal regalia, and that one set only if he had triumphed. Fortune's Favorites
Repeating the denial, he felt his fingers take a firmer hold of the ledge where he hung. COUP D'ETAT
Fashions come and fashions go, but one style repeating itself with enormous popularity is that of the Edwardian era.
He was constantly repeating that he came from the people, and he liked to give Bulgarians five leva additionally to their salaries on a periodic basis.
And obviously some on the list are great too, but there's no point in repeating = P. MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!)
Without repeating any mantras, I concentrate the mind and the psyche in this way.
Her sense of suffocation is intensified by her grimy surroundings Alaska's natural glories go undescribed by Mr. Vann—they're always blocked by fog and by the conviction that her daughter, Rhoda, is repeating her mistake. Icy State Of Affairs
When landing drop back into a squat position and keep repeating. The Sun
Next, there was coprolalia -- repeating curse words. Printing: Brain Dead Senate Economasturbation
Having said that, tests sometimes need repeating. The Sun
There is no point in merely repeating what we've done before.
One would expect this in something like the early Passacaglia, a contrapuntal Baroque form in which a set of variations occurs over a repeating bass.
What struck me immediately, and throughout the short journey, was that the two ladies' command of the English language was restricted to only two words ‘No car’ which they kept repeating over and over.
Would you mind repeating what you just said?

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