reduplicate

Example Sentences

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Sir Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lefty gave us his magnificently written poem which he could never reduplicate because he had lost his hand.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

In the Mœso-Gothic, however, there was a true reduplicate form; in other words, a perfect tense as well as an aorist.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

His self-esteem is to his capacity in the reduplicate ratio of the inverse proportion of his ability, and he will be always a fool.'

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

Thus, in Malvaceae the corolla is contorted and the calyx valvate, or reduplicate; in St John’s-wort the calyx is imbricate, and the corolla contorted.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various