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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a recurring line" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phrase or sentence that appears multiple times in a text, song, or conversation.
Example: "In the poem, the author uses a recurring line that emphasizes the theme of love and loss."
Alternatives: "a repeated phrase" or "a recurring phrase".
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Ben, your book has a recurring line: "Oh my people".
Late in the set the band played "Maps," a stripped-down rock anthem with a recurring line, "Wait, they don't love you like I love you".
The title of the track is taken from a recurring line in the novel which simultaneously comments on the repressed "inner and outer parties" as well the protagonist's impending imprisonment by the thought police.
It delivers a stream of feverish, oneiric visions, of apocalypse brought about through war or environmental catastrophe or the boundless human capacity for self‑deception and bedevilment; and everywhere there's the lick of flame – "it will be fire" is a recurring line.
Deck tells me legal fees are a recurring line item.
The collaboration went both ways: A bit at the end in which the crowd sings a recurring line happened spontaneously at the video shoot but now looks to be incorporated into the track.
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Mr. Bathory-Kitsz said he was unable to compose for a month after the attacks, then rapidly produced "The Key of Locust," a trio for violin, viola and cello that features a recurring melody line of pure, keening anguish.
Mark Rylance's nomination for Best Supporting Actor, for his turn as Rudolf Abel, in "Bridge of Spies," is due, I think, to a similar synergy of actor and material: his delivery of a single recurring line—"Would it help?"—is the hook that catches voters.
Mark Rylance's nomination for Best Supporting Actor, for his turn as Rudolf Abel, in "Bridge of Spies," is due, I think, to a similar synergy of actor and material: his delivery of a single recurring line — "Would it help?" — is the hook that catches voters.
He occasionally relied on a steady bass line or a recurring melody, but he was just as likely to pile up percussive, discordant patterns.
Much of the alt-right emerged from message boards that highly prize shock value — a joke about a sacred idea or an unspeakable tragedy, something like the recurring line, "The Holocaust didn't happen, but it should have".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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