Used in a Sentence

repeatedly

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for repeatedly.

Editorial note

It will allow an overloaded bag to descend to the ground in a safe and controlled manner, repeatedly.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Done several times or in repetition.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of repeatedly gathered in one view.

adverb

Done several times or in repetition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for repeatedly.

adverb

Done several times or in repetition.

Example sentences

1

It will allow an overloaded bag to descend to the ground in a safe and controlled manner, repeatedly.

2

We ban users who address other users repeatedly like this, so please don't do it again on HN.

3

In the Go style, package identifiers are typed repeatedly, the identifiers inside a package are not imported into the global namespace.

4

The iPod/iPhone gives me thumb fatigue whenever I have to scroll repeatedly to read a long web page.

5

It's a package name (not a function name) and it is typed repeatedly, so the shorter it is, the less visual noise.

6

Some more context: The attorney general Harald Range repeatedly refused to perform in-depth investigations against US spying on german politicians and institutions (e.g.

7

I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of shipping code, and I've faced this kind of code-for-an-interview process repeatedly.

8

They see the front page of a tabloid paper declaring it repeatedly.

9

But I get screwed constantly while travelling to other countries, getting repeatedly locked out of Gmail.

10

What the Plan 9 compiler authors did, repeatedly, reduces to case 2.

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I've repeatedly hired (different startups) a plodding, methodical, university-educated, by-the-book programmer to crank out database schema with its 200-plus-dialog query frontends.

12

As a kid, I would sit for hours playing the nes Zelda and repeatedly dying, picking up the controller, and having another go.

Quote examples

1

Since I pay for all my Apple stuff and they repeatedly say that they don't sell my data, I assume that "trusted partners" means companies they've outsourced speech recognition to, or whatever, and that it won't ever be used for tracking or advertising.

2

What people have an issue with is that he has repeatedly defended major shortcomings in the design of the craft with shoddy reasoning such as "oh, guns won't come into play in most combat scenarios, so it's OK for the guns on the F-35 to not work." If that's the type of low-quality discourse you want on HN, fine.

3

I had one recruiter repeatedly send me calls and emails for a position I explicitly told them I wanted no part of the first time he contacted me, and he didn't stop until I sent an email saying "please cease and desist from contacting me again, or I will take legal action against both you and your firm" (I should've also called his firm's HR department, but c'est la vie...).

4

I had a desk in an open office, and for some reason that meant the project manager had an open invitation to walk up to my desk repeatedly throughout the day bugging me with brain-dead questions and pointless "standups".

Proper noun examples

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Repeatedly trying solutions to see if they work isn't the optimal method for fixing bugs.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use repeatedly in a sentence?

It will allow an overloaded bag to descend to the ground in a safe and controlled manner, repeatedly.

What does repeatedly mean?

Done several times or in repetition.

What part of speech is repeatedly?

repeatedly is commonly used as adverb.