"repetition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

repetition sustantivo

repetition + verbo
Kolokacji: 5
repetition makes • repetition creates • repetition occurs • repetition suggests • repetition helps
verbo + repetition
Kolokacji: 6
use repetition • avoid a repetition • involve repetition • bear repetition • emphasize repetition • ...
adjetivo + repetition
Kolokacji: 24
endless repetition • constant repetition • frequent repetition • simple repetition • mere repetition • ...
(1) endless, sheer, infinite
Kolokacji: 3
(3) frequent, rhythmic
Kolokacji: 2
(5) mindless, vain
Kolokacji: 2
1. mindless repetition = bezmyślne powtórzenie mindless repetition
2. vain repetition = bezowocne powtórzenie vain repetition
  • And then, my mind flitting to my father's deathbed, I began to murmur, scarce above my breath, the same vain repetition of words, 'Hurry, hurry, hurry.'
  • Some have taken issue with the form of the prayer, citing Jesus' admonition against "vain repetitions" in Matthew 6:7-9.
  • The term translated as "vain repetitions" is battalogein.
  • Asking God to be God is a "vain repetition."
  • It's the spirit of demonism, as is evident by the vain repetition of Hail Marys in the Rosary Prayer.
  • They believe that Jesus gave it as an inspired example for correct prayer and not as a set text to be repeated using "vain repetitions".
  • That having had one good leg he should have another-- this would be to use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do.
  • The Bible must be referring to wallpapers, I think, when it says, "Use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do."
  • Rituals have no efficacy; prayers are vain repetitions; and incantations have no saving power.
  • "Out of respect," said Chebeya, "we try to avoid vain repetition of the names of the Original Women."
(7) needless, unnecessary
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + repetition
Kolokacji: 12
of repetition • with repetition • in repetition • through repetition • for repetition • ...

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