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
• Contextualizing the ordeals of the main character (played with impressive energy by James Norton) is wholly admirable, but the extreme length and the repetitious plot work against the play’s sensitizing mission.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024