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refrainmeaning

noun·B2·7 letters

repeated line or chorus in a song or poem

Example sentence

The crowd sang along loudly to the song's catchy refrain.

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Give me a sentence with "refrain".

The crowd sang along loudly to the song's catchy refrain.

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That works. Now tell me where you last heard "refrain".

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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