How to Use repetitive in a Sentence

repetitive

adjective
  • She left the job because the work was too repetitive.
  • At the risk of being repetitive, I must remind you again to be careful.
  • Shock wears off, the news seems repetitive, and the world is ready to move on.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 June 2021
  • The whole debate, if that’s the right word for it, has been stale and repetitive since the mid-1990s.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But as in the gym, repetitive work is the price of success.
    — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But that’s where the hardships come in, the repetitive tasks.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The work is tedious and repetitive, and Parish knows what’s at stake.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • This repetitive process is part of what’s known as the Lanserhof Cure.
    — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a repetitive nature to the way Michael is killing.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
  • And if that gets repetitive over Squid Game’s three seasons, well, that’s sort of the point.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • The show overall, though, is too repetitive and cutesy for me.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
  • These talk shows can be repetitive, and pulling the rug out from under us has been a good thing.
    — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The repetitive throwing has also taught her to take care of her body.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • There were girls with a broken pelvis due to repetitive rapes.
    — Jeff Robbins, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Low-code platforms take over the tedious, the repetitive, and the standard.
    — Earl Duque, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Well, don’t call us repetitive, but the T2 chip is working triple time.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Ladies and gentleman, at the risk of sounding repetitive, the State of our State is strong.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • And although one of Patrick’s gifts to us is her honesty, at times the book felt repetitive and too one-note.
    — Steven Petrow, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • Phil went along and wrote this ridiculous lyric that went with it — very repetitive.
    — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the largest, most repetitive and complex pieces of the DNA puzzle remained in the dark — until now.
    — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Sadly, the park building side of the game is shallow and gets repetitive.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Injuries may be small, repetitive and build up over time – like the effect of smoking on the lungs.
    — Matthew Steinhauser, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • There’s the cold, the repetitive movement, and the often wet hands, which causes painful skin damage.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Wolff was right, too, that Stelter’s show is a tad repetitive.
    — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • The biggest gaps that remained in the human genome were all repetitive DNA.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The Angolan dance routine is both just repetitive enough to be picked up and just varied enough to tease.
    — Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Quartz Africa, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The Watch saw no damage after repetitive hits, as seen in the clip below.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Take note of what others are saying to avoid repetitive points.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In some ways, the book is exceedingly repetitive — each page has the same list of columns, and many of the same dots in each column.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • Tics are sudden, repetitive actions that people cannot control.
    — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 26 June 2025

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