Repetitions
[repɪ'tɪʃnz]
Examples
- But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I set down fifty-two distinct repetitions, and then the echo got the advantage of me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But we had repetitions of church and prayer-meetings; and so, of course, we were just as eligibly situated as we could have been any where. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Literally and exactly what I heard, he answered-- except that the repetitions are not transferred here from my short-hand notes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The repetitions, in this sense, were of some assistance to me in putting together those fragments. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The symbols that form the alphabet consist of combinations of short and long strokes, which by their repetitions and variations, are made to stand for different letters. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Editor: Peter