How to Use again and again in a Sentence

again and again

adverb
  • And as for the recipes our readers cooked again and again?
    Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Tries to do a three-point turn but fails again and again.
    Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There’s the real test: for Stafford and the Rams to play this well again and again and again.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Just throw them into the wash to reuse again and again—up to 500 times, in fact.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2023
  • It’s been proven again and again in fashion that the eye has to travel.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • The Late Late Show has tried again and again to break absurd world records.
    Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • They’re sold in a pack of three, and can be used again and again for up to a year with proper care.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Having the same handful of shows win again and again and again and again sucks all the suspense out of the evening(*).
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Over more than four decades, Trump has sued and been sued in civil court again and again.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In the second volume of her diaries, Garner refers to the home again and again.
    Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This is an impulse that comes up again and again in talking to Heti.
    Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But that’s what classes, or just trying again and again, are for.
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • These are the kitchen paint colors that designers go back to again and again.
    Bridget Mallon, Sunset Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • His answer, again and again, was to recite a litany of failure.
    Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The goal becomes deep runs in the tournament bracket again and again.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In this case, the candles come in a sturdy box that can be used again and again for storage.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But the skyline will inevitably be redrawn again and again.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • For more than a year, Maisel pitched banks with his Marvel Studios scheme, and failed again and again.
    Joanna Robinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Choose a price point that feels right to you in order to share that special moment again and again.
    Jamie Fischer, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The sexiest perfumes and colognes are easy to wear again and again—by design.
    Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The tales of Leach’s college days on the BYU rugby team would be told again and again among his coach and old teammates.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Moments like this occur again and again in these pages.
    Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The same names seem to come up again and again, names notably different than a decade or so ago.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But the bitterness of not knowing is a drink that must be swallowed again and again.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Trust will keep your customers coming back again and again.
    John Hall, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • That tension, the real versus the ideal, crops up again and again in Flock’s project.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That’s because as 2024 kicked off, the topic of tunnels began to come up again and again.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2024
  • In a food rut, relying on the same dinner staples again and again?
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The grid has set new all-time high records for power demand again and again this season.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Add to that a dollop of frustration that this has happened again and again and again.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023

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