How to Use oppressed in a Sentence

oppressed

adjective

• The lack of space, light, and freedom wears on the mental health and well-being of the hidden and oppressed.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• Harvard is the first Ivy League school to spotlight the discrimination students from oppressed and marginalised castes face on campus.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
• Their plan is task forces to study antisemitism, meaning: Get Jews back on the reservation by granting them a modicum of oppressed status.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• One of whom is Gallatin, an elf and warrior who creates more plot-handy conflict by clashing with the elven queen Francesca over the right way to find liberation for their oppressed people.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 4 July 2023
• This includes speaking up for the marginalized and oppressed, fighting for justice and liberation, and doing Jah’s work.
  — Debra Edwards, Essence, 21 Mar. 2024
• Danger is magnified for women who are Dalits, the name for people born into the most oppressed castes in South Asia’s rigid hierarchy.
  — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
• In the last book in Adeyemi's groundbreaking series, readers will finally learn the conclusion to the story of Zélie, a member of an oppressed magical group known as the maji.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• With a lightness of style and use of cinematic language that led us into a society of oppressed youth and passive leadership.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 13 June 2024
• Many teens feel suffocated by their surroundings, but these four probably have better cause than most to feel oppressed.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
• Children of Anguish and Anarchy will wrap things up for fans of the series, and for its steadfast protagonist Zélie, a member of the maji, an oppressed magical group.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
• Enslaved Blacks, Baumgartner notes, were not the only oppressed people who sought asylum in Mexico.
  — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• Indigenous Continent raises a pressing question: How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples?
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• However, women remain deeply oppressed under the Taliban, having been mostly banned from public life, workplaces, and school beyond the sixth grade.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 25 June 2023
• Over the last few years, Soundararajan has been one of the leaders of a nationwide push to offer more protections for Dalits, those born into oppressed classes under the Indian caste system.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 May 2023
• For me, DuBose represents the legions of oppressed and frustrated women from that era, my mother included.
  — David Baldacci, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
• There is no oppressor and no oppressed, no one victorious and no one defeated, no legacies of guilt or victimization.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• More than just a work of art — or a metaphor for an oppressed people’s revenge fantasy — the contraption becomes a bargaining chip in a desperate bid by Indian royalty to fend off British conquest.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The premise quickly expands to a recognizable metaphor of prejudice, with fire people—talking pillars of flame that struggle not to set things on fire—functioning as an oppressed underclass who strive to fit in with the other elements.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 June 2023
• The other is the story of a historically oppressed people flexing their growing electoral muscle after the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed obstacles to the ballot box.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Even after slavery’s end, the region continued its reliance on oppressed labor – sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and people who had been convicted of crimes.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
• The projects in Rose’s Candyman are an apocalypse, home to an egregious liberal fantasy of an oppressed and impoverished underclass.
  — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
• Armed resistance was a necessity for oppressed people—a perspective easy to agree with, especially when the oppression seems to foreclose any other option.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• In each fictional universe, an oppressed group stages a revolution that fights for political and economic freedom.
  — Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The story shows these elements while shifting back and forth between time periods and subplots featuring oppressed people of different races using cross-cutting in a way DuVernay does not use often.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 16 Dec. 2023
• And at the same time, examples of ways women throughout American history managed to do both, even at a time when mothers were expected to stay home, is often—like so much of the history of women and other oppressed populations—hidden.
  — Nina Ansary, Time, 6 May 2021
• Individuals from oppressed groups are given leeway to target oppressor groups through disruptions and threats.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• And in Western countries, liberal or left-leaning politics tends to involve supporting oppressed people, a pattern that has helped fuel pro-Palestinian protests by young Americans.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2024
• And that thinking is so absolutely catastrophic for oppressed people.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2023
• Throughout his 40-year career, this award-winning artist has transformed the history of oppressed and stereotyped segments of the American experience into lyrical two-dimensional master works.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• Asians are 15 percent, including the descendants of oppressed Chinese immigrant railroad workers.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 27 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024