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Example sentences for "reiteration"

Lexicographically close words:
reit; reiterate; reiterated; reiterates; reiterating; reiters; reitet; reith; reiver; reivers
  1. In his essays on hero-worship he contents himself with a noisy reiteration of the general predicate of heroism; there is very little except their names and the titles to differentiate one sort of hero from another.

  2. He begins with encouragement blended with reiteration of the people's sin.

  3. The reminder of past benefits, and the reiteration of the plain injunctions which have been broken, are the way to cut through the poor palliations which men wrap around their sins.

  4. And also she was asking herself with futile reiteration why she had got into debt at Oxbridge?

  5. Her serenity gave way to a reiteration of this question, reiterations increasing and at last oppressing like the snowflakes of a storm, perpetual whirling repetitions that at last confused her and hid the sky.

  6. At the third reiteration of the words, the frightful contortion that I knew so well, seized on his face.

  7. I interpreted this uneasy reiteration as meaning that she was rather trying to convince herself than to convince me.

  8. For some little time he had been aware of the sound of a fiddle, and as he listened, waiting for the bell to be answered, the intermittance and reiteration of the music convinced him that the organist was giving a violin lesson.

  9. Westray had thought this poetic insistence gave a touch of romance, and balanced the sentence; but to Anastasia it seemed the reiteration of a platitude.

  10. But many of its financial platitudes were probably in need of reiteration for the good, both of the carriers and the public.

  11. Is the reiteration of the word "maximum" intentional?

  12. The one we are now describing is in no way a doubled rondeau, and hardly suggests that form more than any of these that have the features of limited rhyme sounds, and more or less frequent reiteration of a refrain.

  13. The refrain, too, is no longer a mere reiteration of the text, but linked with the preceding verse, as a refrain should be, and absorbed into the sense of the whole stanza to which it belongs.

  14. At the risk of reiteration of a warning given in the description of each of these poems that use a refrain, this point must be insisted on, as the most vital one.

  15. The Albanian keens are not always versified; they sometimes consist simply in the endless reiteration of a single phrase.

  16. It was the mystic phrase, and the perpetual reiteration of absolute principles that made the propositions seem obscure.

  17. This reiteration of a key-word is a mark of Paul's style in his Epistles, and its appearance here attests the accuracy of the report of his speech.

  18. Take away His resurrection from the dead, and we have left beautiful precepts, and fair wisdom, deformed with a monstrous self-assertion and the constant reiteration of claims which the event proves to have been baseless.

  19. You may display the fairest graces of Christian character before them, and you get no answer but the reiteration of 'It is needful to circumcise you.

  20. Some ears will rather hear in it a solemn reiteration like the boom of triple thunders.

  21. There is singular solemnity in the emphatic reiteration of "Thou" in these verses.

  22. Huldah was serving Judah best by plain reiteration of the 'words of the book.

  23. There is something extremely impressive in this continual reiteration of that contrast.

  24. A reiteration of earlier words follows, with the addition that Nehemiah now binds, as it were, his single prayer in a bundle with those of the like-minded in Israel.

  25. Frederick's communications with the French Court are one long reiteration of this demand.

  26. Were it not for reiteration upon reiteration of the same things in talk, life would be a stark silence broken only by staccato announcement of facts.

  27. My shield and the horn of my salvation" come in the centre of the second set, in obedience to the law of variety in reiteration which the poet's artistic instincts impose.

  28. It is fitted for meditative reiteration of favourite emotions or familiar axioms, and results in a loosely twined wreath rather than in a column with base, shaft, and capital.

  29. He does not at first appeal to God's revealed character, except in so far as the plaintive reiteration of the Divine name carries such an appeal, but he spreads out his own wretchedness, and he who does that has faith in God's pity.

  30. The argument of Payne was cogent and commended itself warmly to Northern delegates; but it struck Southern ears as a tiresome reiteration of arguments drawn from premises which they could not admit.

  31. But Douglas replied with an earnest reiteration of his expectations.

  32. And his last utterance had been a reiteration of that promise, "He killed the woman I loved, and he shall pay the price though I follow him to Hell.

  33. At last by the constant reiteration of the thing which he desired, he began to take it for granted that his prayer was answered.

  34. As these monosyllables were repeated, Beckendorff, with sparkling eyes, triumphantly looked round at Vivian, as if the frequent reiteration were a proof of the sincerity of the affection of these singular friends.

  35. The denunciations of the "money power" and the reiteration of democratic dogmas deserve earnest attention.

  36. The reiteration of Cassandra's prediction had failed to discount the staggering reality, and for a brief moment animosities were silenced.

  37. She had assured herself with passionate reiteration that Boone was a character in a chapter torn out of her life, but the heartache remained in stubborn mutiny against that ordaining.

  38. The denunciation of witchcraft is quite naturally followed, as we now perceive, by the reiteration of the command that no sacrifice may be offered to any god except Jehovah (20).

  39. What connection is there between all this and the reiteration of the law of the Sabbath?

  40. Again he returns to the command, explaining, enlarging, insisting, and concludes with a reiteration of the permission to slaughter.

  41. But the religious instruction was not to be limited to the reiteration of these great sentences; in that case they would have become a mere form of words.

  42. These same charges were made with unrelenting persistency and reiteration by Douglas throughout the series of the debates.

  43. This is evident from their continual reiteration--a reiteration that is too conspicuous to be overlooked.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reiteration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.