Read full poem →were commenced against some of the performers for
repeating profane and indecent words. Several were
found guilty; and Betterton and Mrs. Bracegirdle
Dictionary Entry
To do or say again (and again).
In a Sentence
“The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. repeatingitself repeatingrepeating keptrepeating worth
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Poetry examples for “repeating”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Read full poem →While he goes about from morning till night
Repeating bits of that common thing;
“Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?”
Read full poem →VII The real numbers; decimals; characteri-
zation of rationals as repeating decimals;
denseness of rationals in reals.
Read full poem →And the strange and beautiful song,
The groves are repeating it still:
"A boy's will is the wind's will,
Read full poem →To his farm went Thorberg Skafting,
Oft repeating to his workmen,
Build ye thus and so.
Read full poem →The distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees,
In many a lazy syllable, repeating
Their old poetic legends to the wind.
Read full poem →make here a final declaration of my sincere impenitence for having
published them. Nay, I cannot forbear repeating yet once more, for his
benefit and that of his readers, this sentence from my original
Read full poem →And give good measure to the dead, though thankless.
If that was how she felt, he kept repeating.
His first thought under pressure was a grave
Read full poem →She's cute now, you admit, going back to Senlin and the dewdrops repeating
three clear tones. She used to be scared, but when a woman knows a man's crazy