How to Use oppress in a Sentence

oppress

verb

• The country has long been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.
• They condemned attempts by the government to oppress its citizens.
• What color are the people who feel as though they are oppressed here?
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 31 May 2018
• Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed—the actual oppressed.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
• Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
• Beyond that, people who like kink aren’t oppressed in nearly the same way LGBT folks are.
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 6 Feb. 2018
• If white men are constantly conspiring to oppress the rest of the world, why can't the Left rig an election?
  — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
• Sometimes, as in Cuba, people who speak in the name of the oppressed simply want to use them as tools for power.
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• Near the end of the song, his lyrics suggest how the exploited and oppressed are convinced to play within the confines of this system.
  — refinery29.com, 6 May 2018
• Their way of life is to claim they are being oppressed if they are not allowed to oppress others.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• Many shared a common story: They had been born, lived or worked in Ukraine; and they had been oppressed, exiled or killed by Russia.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Craven’s strict schedule, a measured pace from morning till night, doesn’t oppress her.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• If China wants to oppress its population, there’s not much that the United States can or should do about it.
  — Daniel Bessner, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• The hopeless cycle of debt that oppresses people and nations alike is not a law of nature.
  — Charles Eisenstein, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2019
• And so, these structures that have oppressed brown-skinned people in America are part of our history and a part of our present.
  — Maiysha Kai, The Root, 9 June 2018
• When witchcraft was still a crime in Europe and America, the image of the witch was used to used to oppress and subjugate women.
  — Sarah Lyons, Teen Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• Covert was a home to free and prosperous black men and women at a time when their country’s policies were designed to oppress them.
  — William A. Schambra and Bob Woodson, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Hate, as well as groups that have a history of oppressing the most vulnerable, have no place in New York.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
• It was built to oppress, it was built to control, it was built to shape our culture in a specific way that kept some people here and some people here.
  — Essence, 10 June 2019
• The latter have maintained control of the state in most Arab countries, and have used state power to oppress the rural majority.
  — Sam Sweeney, National Review, 6 Sep. 2020
• Young women are being taught that men have all the power and have used it throughout history to oppress women.
  — Jeanie Pyun, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2017
• The state received a waiver in the 1970s to set its own standards due to oppressing smog and has maintained tight regulations as a means to fight climate change.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Every other speaker mentions a version of it — how Joe Biden wants to oppress their way of life, how their way of life is being threatened.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• For a moment, all of America seemed to be talking about the Kurds, a stateless people of 40 million, who have long been oppressed in the Middle East and ignored abroad.
  — Majeed Gly, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• Both increase during heat waves—like the one oppressing Miami at the moment.
  — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• But the sun that shines on Wander is a different kind of light, the melancholy that oppresses him is a different sort of gloom, a sort video game consoles couldn't depict in 2005.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 6 Feb. 2018
• Women’s bodies have always been battlegrounds in Ireland, things to be controlled and oppressed by the State in collusion with the Catholic Church.
  — Una Mullally, The Cut, 24 May 2018
• Kono’s women tend to be oppressed by chronic illnesses and vivid nightmares.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• But the narrator hasn’t come to understand his own position in the systems that are oppressing.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2019
• Is this a confession of privilege guilt? Guilt at her complicity in the systems that oppressed the homeless man who stabbed her?
  — Leslie Jamison, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024