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Example sentences for "repeat"

Lexicographically close words:
repealable; repealed; repealers; repealing; repeals; repeate; repeated; repeatedly; repeater; repeaters
  1. I repeat again, the comfort and peace of my father are paramount with me, and I do not intend to marry so long as he may have need of me.

  2. I can not doubt your good heart--I have known it since the time when we played together in the cure's garden, while waiting for the time to repeat the catechism.

  3. Three minutes to settle a new version of what had happened and ten thousand francs to induce her to repeat that .

  4. Yes, we agreed that we should repeat our delightful excursion of yesterday and try to go over that old boarded-up place the look of which made us so curious.

  5. May I repeat your words, not one of which I have forgotten?

  6. I am so old in experience that I often feel that I look old in years," he replied, looking at the girl again, as though about to repeat his remark concerning her beauty.

  7. Therefore the presumption of the girl in asking such a question caused her to repeat again, and with more indignation than before:-- "What do you mean by asking me such a question as that?

  8. In explanation I could only repeat what I have said before; that it is for your good that I have adopted this course.

  9. In each house father, mother, and children fall on their knees before the image or picture of some saint, and repeat their prayers.

  10. Old Blind Skald Stuf could repeat between two and three hundred poems without halting; while the Saga-men had the same power of memory, which we know may be improved to almost any extent by cultivation.

  11. And if any man desires to know who sent this valuable gift, repeat my words, that I forbid any one to seek me, for it is a dangerous voyage, unless others should meet with the same fortune as you.

  12. They also had their scalds or poets, who were accustomed both to repeat the old songs and poems and extemporize new ones.

  13. I repeat it, Malta is the direct road to Sicily.

  14. The second letter of the same date ended with the words: "I therefore trust the defence of Minorca to your Lordship, and repeat my directions that the ships be sent for its protection.

  15. I have heard the wind whisper them, the flowers repeat them, the leaves pass on the refrain to the waving corn, and yet I alone have been unable to say or believe them.

  16. Peter glared but didn't repeat the yell, at which I marvelled.

  17. The loose manner in which the Fathers repeat each other, even in serious matters, is too well known to every one acquainted with their writings to require any remark.

  18. Now we must repeat that Athenagoras does not name any source from which he derives his knowledge of the sayings of Jesus.

  19. We have already quoted the views of Philo regarding the Logos, which also merit comparison with the passage of the Epistle, but we cannot repeat them here.

  20. As we have already discussed this passage(1) we need not repeat our remarks here.

  21. It would be tedious and unnecessary to repeat the test applied to the quotations of Justin, and give in detail the passages from the Sermon on the Mount which are found in the Homilies.

  22. He immediately fired; and the sound of a rush of men in retreat induced both him and the other sentry to repeat the shot.

  23. Imitation of Christ in the first instance, attempts to repeat his poverty and renunciation of personal property: this is the great Christian ideal.

  24. Nor is the whole of the so-called Sunna obedience anything more than the imitation of Muhammed which seeks to repeat the smallest details of his life.

  25. He got out his aviation circulars again and went over them one by one, though he could almost repeat them with his eyes' shut.

  26. He wanted to turn and repeat to Mary V what he had shouted to Bud, but he refrained, though not from any chivalry, I am sorry to say.

  27. The first movement, Allegro moderato, B major, four-four rhythm is free in form, with repeat of the first part.

  28. As the story may not be so well known as the foregoing, I shall briefly repeat it.

  29. To repeat the oft-quoted account given by Schilling: "At the first stroke of the bow on his Guarnerius, one might almost say at the first step he took into the hall, his reputation was decided in Germany.

  30. There was evidently an unusual activity among the gendarmerie of the lower valley, the Val di Non; for Jacopo had to repeat his fable more than once, and Angelo thought it prudent not to make inquiries about travellers.

  31. Laura would do nothing but shrug and smile, and repeat her message.

  32. Rocco gave an inquiring look to see if she would repeat the song.

  33. There was a trifle of a romantic flavour in the notes which Vittoria tried not to feel; the smart iteration of them all about her rubbed it off, but she was reduced to repeat them, and take them in various keys.

  34. But I will here simply refer the reader to the fourth chapter of this work, and will not repeat what was there said.

  35. They occasionally become so familiar with their names and order as to repeat them down and back, as well without the book as with it, before learning a single letter.

  36. She followed her mother, and felt of her hands and arms, as she was occupied about the house, and her disposition to imitate led her to repeat every thing herself.

  37. The Kaffir islands and the Hottentot "locations" in South Africa, large as they now are, will repeat the history of the American Indian lands, a history of gradual shrinkage and disappearance as territorial entities.

  38. Or will the local pattern repeat itself over and over with dull uniformity?

  39. History tends to repeat itself largely owing to this steady, unchanging geographic element.

  40. When the hamlet of five or six families has exhausted all the land about it, it moves to a new spot to repeat the process.

  41. Will the Senator kindly repeat the date of that?

  42. We repeat again, the effect of manners and custom is not often enough considered.

  43. All we said on that occasion we repeat now.

  44. Do you suppose I am going to answer such questions as you are putting me because you repeat them over, Mr. Gridley?

  45. Clement Lindsay was so well received at his first visit that he ventured to repeat it several times, with so short intervals that it implied something more than a common interest in one of the members of the household.

  46. Perhaps it may assist your decision, sir, if I repeat a question which I have put to you already," observed Mrs. Lecount.

  47. Let me repeat a question which escaped you, I think, when I first put it.

  48. I can only repeat that I place implicit belief in her statement.

  49. Will you excuse me if I repeat my request?

  50. Too deeply absorbed in the business of the stage to heed any of them, Magdalen asked leave to repeat the soliloquy, and make quite sure of her own improvement.

  51. Doubting whether she should repeat it or not, she accompanied him as far as the garden, on his way to Mr. Clare's cottage.

  52. How can a lady of your years and experience seriously repeat such nonsense?

  53. I repeat to you that they are absolutely dependent on him.

  54. In the meantime I need only repeat that you can perform the experiment I have just mentioned to your own entire satisfaction with a bladder, an exhausted receiver, and a square box.

  55. She accordingly appended her own formal denial--which she would personally repeat if necessary--of any identity between herself and the person in disguise who had made use of her name.

  56. With this view we have learnt from the pious founder of our sect that we must continually and thankfully repeat the prayer Na Mu Miyô Hô Ren Go Kiyô, turning our hearts away from lies, and embracing the truth.

  57. Whoever is fool enough not to understand this will repeat his misdeed, and will assuredly bring shame on his kindred.

  58. Many even of the priests who repeat it know it only as a formula, without understanding it.

  59. Nevertheless, finding myself treated as a criminal, rage and despair made me express myself against the horrible despotism which oppressed me in a manner which I will leave my readers to guess, but which I will not repeat here.

  60. Not finding all the chandeliers lighted-up as I had ordered, I scolded him well, giving him notice that I did not like to repeat an order.

  61. This news was soon spread abroad by Silvia's servants, and a crowd of the neighbours came to hear what I had to say, and I had to repeat the same thing ten times over.

  62. Many kings might repeat the same words, at least if love is to be measured according to the amount of good actually done.

  63. I'll indicate to you some of my cogitations on this subject by trying to repeat what I told Philip Kerr[17] a fortnight ago--one Sunday in the country.

  64. If several persons took the oath together, they were obliged to repeat it in chorus, and at the conclusion they shouted "Fi Shan Allah.

  65. At times we would shout out to one another words of encouragement, then we would whip up our camels and on again, up and down, through sandy plains and rocky gorges, where the echoes seemed to repeat themselves a hundred times.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repeat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affect; alternate; assume; babble; borrow; burden; chant; chorus; circle; con; copy; counterfeit; crib; cycle; ditto; double; dupe; duplicate; echo; encore; fake; forge; imitate; intermit; memorize; mirror; narrate; oscillate; parallel; parrot; practice; pulsate; pulse; quote; reappear; rebuild; recapitulate; recite; reconstitute; reconstruct; recur; redouble; reestablish; reflect; refound; refrain; regenerate; regurgitate; rehearsal; rehearse; reincarnate; reissue; reiterate; remake; renew; renovate; reorganize; repeat; repetition; reprint; reproduce; reshape; resound; restore; restructure; resume; resurrect; return; reverberate; revert; revise; revive; revolve; rotate; say; simulate; spread; study; trot; turn; twin; undulate; wheel


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    repeat from; repeat the; repeat what; repeated the; repeated the following verses; repeater stations