repetitive - use in sentences

Preposition: after

  • while: However, the messages and indeed the DJ do get repetitive after a while.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • get: However, the core gameplay can get a bit repetitive.
  • find: However, he found the work repetitive and decided to take an MBA at the ESCP-EAP in Paris.

Modifies a noun

  • stimulation: Motor neuron disease: decremental responses to repetitive nerve stimulation.
  • injury: There are hundreds of repetitive strain injuries, too.
  • gameplay: This makes for a lot of repetitive gameplay in the early stages of most missions.
  • task: Any tedious or repetitive task causes people to change their mood.
  • riff: As the song progresses the washed out repetitive organ riff is augmented by heavily delayed and sporadically panned lead guitar.
  • firing: This in turn, may help prevent excessively rapid and repetitive firing of electrical signals.

Modifying Another Word

  • annoyingly: I like the song in itself but the drum solo doesn't fit and the lead guitar part is annoyingly repetitive.
  • tad: However, we can foresee it suffering the main problem of any game of its type; namely it getting a tad repetitive.
  • overly: It's added touches like this that make the game varied and interesting to play without being overly repetitive.
  • somewhat: At the risk of being somewhat repetitive we have tried to relate these where possible to the relevant departments in the prescribed template.
  • occasionally: Speech usually ceases or is severely reduced, but occasionally repetitive vocalization may occur.
  • rather: Once the novelty of powering up your team has worn off, the game boils down to a great deal of rather repetitive combat.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: I also felt the demands of activists in ACT UP had become repetitive.
  • seem: Like everything, the fair has its good and less than good years; it can also seem repetitive when you go every year.
  • get: Healthy lunches in boxes The major problem with lunch boxes is that they get terribly repetitive.
  • feel: However, the track design isn't the most exhilarating and sections often feel repetitive.
  • sound: Without wishing to sound repetitive, Pietersen plays another glorious shot, which just about suits the mood of the day for England.

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