How to Use repeatedly in a Sentence

repeatedly

adverb
  • I've told him repeatedly not to do that.
  • The elk caught up to the girl and stomped on her repeatedly.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 2 June 2024
  • One of the robbers had repeatedly struck Towns in the head with the butt of an AK and tied him up.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • She was stabbed repeatedly in the breast, chest and arm.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Her boyfriend, who is in the driver's seat, repeatedly asks whether Ward has been shot and whether the deputies called 911.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Williams has repeatedly said in the past that the Suns are a pace team that plays best in transition.
    Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The man repeatedly punched the woman in the head and face and raped her before running off.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
  • Adriana falls to the ground, where she is repeatedly kicked and punched by a group of students.
    Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Pressured by the Wild, the Sharks were a mess at times in their own zone, repeatedly unable to break the puck out clean against a hard-forechecking team.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The White House has repeatedly said Ukraine must determine when and if any peace talks take place.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • And some engraved areas gleam with a residue that may be the result of the rock being repeatedly touched.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
  • As in Iraq, the raids were met with protests, and former President Hamid Karzai repeatedly called for them to be banned.
    ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The short film began a friendship that led me to visit him repeatedly.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Musk's lawyer repeatedly asked potential jurors to think about whether this was the right case for them.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The babbling creek alongside that home is an artery that’s repeatedly raged with floodwaters in the past few weeks.
    Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • Over the past decade, Russian forces have repeatedly tried to encircle the city, most notably in a fierce battle in 2017.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • IndieWire has seen video from the match, which shows the director getting struck in the head and torso repeatedly.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly sought to get Merchan to recuse himself from the case.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Waiting in line at the stand next to them was Reina Camil and her husband Tomás, who, for the past year, have repeatedly made the one-hour drive from Anaheim to visit the market.
    Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Health officials have repeatedly warned that the system is on the brink of collapse.
    Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • In recent weeks, Lopez Obrador has repeatedly questioned the number of people in the registry.
    Mary Beth Sheridan and Oscar Lopez The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In recent weeks, López Obrador has repeatedly questioned the number of people in the registry.
    Oscar Lopez, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The Russian craft have repeatedly flown into the path of the drones, forcing them to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 9 July 2023
  • Johnson has repeatedly said the government won't shut down, but declined to share his plan to avoid one.
    Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
  • It is inspired by a series of true crimes in the 1970s regarding Annie Williams (played by Wolfe), who was stalked repeatedly by a man in a white van.
    Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
  • To prepare, Cruise repeatedly climbed up and down a glass wall that was built for rehearsal purposes.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • That is because potholes form when ground water repeatedly melts and freezes in asphalt, causing the road to crack.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Yet Lowe gave no jail time to Nicholas Chapman, a doctor who repeatedly put his semen in coffee and gave it to a woman.
    Abigail Anthony, National Review, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The 55-year-old music mogul has repeatedly been denied bail since his arrest in September.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The Food and Drug Administration has also repeatedly warned about the risks of drinking raw milk in general.
    Dani Blum, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024

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