"repeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yet still there were religious sayings, sometimes repeated obsessively on every few metres of wall until, after many tenners, the writer grew tired.
- She felt as if the gesture, repeated obsessively, was itself the answer, but in a language she did not speak.
- The butt of many jokes is no doubt Mr. Aznar, whose thick-witted puppet obsessively repeats the phrase "Spain is doing well."
- Pain flickers in her new songs, especially in a distortion-edged indie-rocker, "Phantom Mountain," where she obsessively repeats "I could not tell the truth" before adding "from a mirage."
- "Power," she repeats obsessively, thrashing the tambourine in a two-beat groove.
- Piecing it together with family members, I guessed that my father suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mental illness that can compel people to obsessively repeat rituals.
- They can also react to trauma by obsessively repeating joyless games that re-enact the event, rather than deny it.
- He pushed his voice toward a fragile falsetto and, like Van Morrison, he obsessively repeated words and lines.
- In a way, the Federal Government resembles a neurotic family that obsessively repeats the same pattern of damaging behavior, unable to recognize its own pathology and unable to change.
- But the title that repeats obsessively across the painting's background seems urban enough: "4 Ever Alone."
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