How to Use over and over in a Sentence

over and over

adverb
  • The kids play the Gossec gavotte over and over and over.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Trey read it and said it over and over the day of the game.
    Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Bochy has said the same thing over and over this spring.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • It’s like the same TV show over and over and over again.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Derek has played over and over in his head the events of that day.
    Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • By the way, the questions were asked over and over and over again.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The 7-year-old quickly climbed her way to the top of the wall over and over again.
    Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Nicky is sent to bring them back, and dies over and over again in the process.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 July 2025
  • Mustafa, my friend and I turned it over and over in our hands.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • She had been stabbed and slashed, over and over and over again.
    C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Its 48 pieces are large, chunky, and easy to use over and over again.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 16 Aug. 2022
  • But who wants to be drinking the same thing over and over again?
    Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Democrats will be ready to come back and do this over and over again.
    Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Much of it didn’t end up in the picture; some of it was used over and over.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This is a movie that my mom and my aunts would watch over and over again.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 26 Oct. 2022
  • He’s had to play all decades of this music over and over again.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • But here comes the same old letdown, over and over again.
    Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Those of us who've been lucky enough to work with Dwayne have seen it over and over.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • But the same bees do buzz around her bonnet, over and over.
    Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • My mind could not stop replaying the events of the rape over and over.
    Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
  • For love has its sour side, as these songs tell us over and over.
    Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • What are the pieces a consumer will return to over and over?
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 2025
  • All of the comments will be replayed over and over again in the lead up to that game.
    John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 2 June 2022
  • There’s no way they should have been gashed over and over again for big gains through the air and on the ground.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Well, what did John Lauro say to you over and over again?
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Brady to Edelman, 11 yards, first down, over and over and over again.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • And the Rams — with all sorts of time, three timeouts and a great QB — wanted it, over and over.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Yet both said the same word over and over again.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
  • But the ball found him, over and over.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • It’s being said, over and over and over, that the United States has assembled one of its best-ever speed skating teams.
    Steve Buckley, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026

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