How to Use repetitious in a Sentence

repetitious

adjective

• He was bored by the repetitious work.
• Her writing can be repetitious.
• And the repetitious scenery of Day 1 soon faded into the past.
  — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• The result is tedious and makes this short play feel very long and repetitious.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 11 June 2018
• And not all of the political tones the show strikes are quite so repetitious.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 26 Sep. 2017
• The repetitious videos seemed to be designed for busy voters not glued to their seats in the Senate chamber.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
• That which drags on or is repetitious will soon be abandoned.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Even before the first death, the story gets repetitious.
  — Mike Hughes, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2021
• Stan becomes convinced that his way out of this repetitious hell is to alter the outcome of Harambe’s death.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 3 July 2021
• Instead of a repetitious tossing of Pokéballs, each Trace calls for a different sort of spell.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• The 40 musk oxen and a solitary moose calf lived a placid, pleasantly repetitious summer life of scheduled food, shade and sleep.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020
• The aftermath of loss is exhausting, repetitious, and often very, very dull—and so is training for a marathon.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
• The casino made millions of francs that day on the gamblers’ belief that randomness could not be repetitious.
  — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
• Her use of the hooked rug invokes hours of repetitious labor spent following a pattern.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Because that character in the Richard Curtis films was a bit repetitious.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• It’s one big repetitious cycle, and it’s not a smart way to advance thought or create empathy.
  — Quinta Brunson, Vulture, 7 June 2021
• Our job is to make them as different from one another as possible so that that part of it doesn’t feel repetitious.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• The complaints about Lucky Charms have been magically repetitious, so to speak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• Schneider’s lyrics can get a little repetitious, but no more so than today’s radio hits.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2017
• The Big Boys follow the repetitious outrages on social media.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Nov. 2020
• As Miles Surrey wrote in The Ringer, when movie characters are trapped in a repetitious cycle, often the only way to break them is by looking within themselves.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
• Prescod’s voice is spirited and engaging but can be repetitious, and her pacing is a bit sluggish.
  — Nneka McGuire, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• The books were plotless, littered with mind-numbing, repetitious quasi-sentences.
  — I-Huei Go, The New Yorker, 5 June 2019
• And the radio's repetitious selection doesn't allow for the discovery of new songs either.
  — Amanda Greene, Woman's Day, 31 Aug. 2010
• Everybody Knows poses a moral question that has too easy and inevitable an answer—all of the film’s repetitious angst is ultimately in service of a fairly simple point.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 9 May 2018
• All those traditional whines and whimpers about how the guild and other pre-Oscar awards ruin everything with repetitious wins have been silenced.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• The lab doesn’t sequence the entire DNA molecule, much of which is repetitious and uninformative, but maps about a million key locations.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• Furtwängler’s writings as sampled here (others are better) are repetitious—and so, alas, is Mr. Allen’s commentary.
  — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• Though one of the most popular composers on the planet, Glass has been a hard sell to the classical-music establishment, and some still willfully dismiss his work as the repetitious gimmickry of a lightweight.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
• The Lincoln-Douglas debates during the Illinois Senate campaign of 1858 were tedious, long-winded, and repetitious.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019

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