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How to use repeat in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Repeat means to do or say again (and again). Example: “The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.”

Examples of repeat by meaning

verbTo do or say again (and again).

  • The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
  • I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!
  • I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.

verbTo happen again; recur.

  • A day like that has not yet repeated itself.

verbTo echo the words of (a person).

  • Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.2008, Ken Jensen, Ronda Del Boccio, It Takes Guts to Be Me: How an Ex-marine Beat Bipolar Disorder

verbTo call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted...

  • Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
  • Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.

nounAn iteration; a repetition.

  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • "We think it may have come inaccurately and should like a repeat."1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

More sentences with repeat

  • If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.From the entry absorb
  • You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.From the entry want
  • Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.From the entry double
  • See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?From the entry motif
  • He was able to repeat the entire script word for word.From the entry word for word
  • His latest song is such a bump, I can't stop listening to it on repeat.From the entry bump
  • You're breaking up. Can you repeat that? Well, it got cut off.From the entry break up
  • His low-keyed sales technique worked more often than high-pressure tactics, and won him many repeat customers.From the entry low-keyed
  • I died just before I reached the savepoint and had to repeat everything from my previous save.From the entry savepoint
  • The Menology of St Symeon mostly repeats earlier accounts but includes some small additions as well.From the entry menology
  • The menologies of St Symeon mostly repeat earlier accounts but include some small additions as well.From the entry menology
  • I had to repeat the instructions for her five times; methinks the old lady was aurally challenged.From the entry aurally challenged
  • Take the halfth one on the left, and repeat each halfth one thereafter.From the entry halfth
  • Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?From the entry get
  • Can you repeat what you just said? I didn't understand.From the entry understand
  • History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.From the entry history
  • The mother turned a blind eye to her son’s mischief as she expected him not to repeat it.From the entry turn a blind eye
  • An oath sworn or affirmed orally is often given in call and response, where the official reads each line of the oath, and the affiant repeats the line back.From the entry call and response
  • Her voice is steady and encouraging as she repeats a phrase, which the children repeat back.2024 December 31, Theo Greenly, “A community’s fight to save Unangam Tunuu on St. Paul Island”, in KUCB. From the entry Unangam Tunuu
  • An aperiodic monotile never repeats a formation, no matter how long the pattern.2023 April 4, Matthew Cantor, “'The miracle that disrupts order': mathematicians invent new 'einstein' shape”, in The Guardian, London…. From the entry monotile
  • Is it possible to make patterns that repeat over all possible periods?2023 December 13, “Mathematicians Prove the "Omniperiodicity" of Conway's Game of Life”, in Discover, Waukesha, W.I.: Kalmbach Media…. From the entry omniperiodic
  • Once you taste success, you want to repeat, repeat and repeat.2022 March 24, John Pierce, “Recruiting The Best Talent: Strategies To Implement In 2022”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 15 Apr…. From the entry stack rank
  • Repeat echocardiography after 1 month showed the resolution of tiger stripes.2022, Najeeb Ullah Sofi, Santosh Kumar Sinha, Mohit Sachan, Ramesh Thakur, “Tiger stripes in carditis of rheumatic origin”, in Heart…. From the entry tiger stripe
  • No vehicular repeaters for VHF or UHF link to their vehicle that repeats to their Lowband channels?2016 October 5, popnokick, RadioReference.com. From the entry CHPer
  • For example, nacrein has a carbonic anhydrase domain and a Gly-X-Asn repeat domain.2015 July 11, “Dual Roles of the Lysine-Rich Matrix Protein (KRMP)-3 in Shell Formation of Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry nacrein
  • "Lang may yer lum reek." Angus laughs, slaps Grinning Hottie on the back, and repeats the salutation.2015, Leah Marie Brown, Finding It (An It Girl Novel), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry lang may yer lum reek
  • We were to repeat our normal practise of me bulling his boots and him ironing my kit.2014, Sean Connolly, British Army on the Rampage (B.A.O.R.), page 118. From the entry bull
  • He pours it full of OJ and takes a huge swig, swallows, and repeats.2014, Michael Griffo, Starfall (The Darkborn Legacy), New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry swig
  • It appears that once victimized, the risk of revictimization or repeat victimization is greater.2014, Richard Wright, Sex Offender Laws, Second Edition, page 18. From the entry revictimization
  • The voice of the other truck on the CB radio repeats.2014, Jeffrey Otersen, Little Truckers: Feeling Scrappy. From the entry have one's ears on
  • There's no need for repeat, sub-par screwery simply because you don't know many people yet.2014 November 13, Anna Pulley, “Should I keep a blah winter boy- or girlfriend?”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry screwery

Meaning of repeat

  1. verb To do or say again (and again).
  2. verb To refill (a prescription).
  3. verb To happen again; recur.

Full definition of repeat

Questions about repeat in a sentence

How do you use repeat in a sentence?
Repeat is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.”
What is a short sentence with repeat?
“Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.”
What does repeat mean?
Repeat means to do or say again (and again).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: repeat (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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