How to Use suppression in a Sentence

suppression

noun

• Most of it flowed into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• In fact, the tree bears no fire scars for 100 years during the policy of fire suppression.
  — David Schechter, Chance Horner, CBS News, 13 July 2023
• Most of this fuel spilled into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
• The fire was contained in an area of the 11th and 12 floors of the vessel, which has a Halon fire suppression system, city officials said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 July 2023
• The book is most powerful as a depiction of the agony of suppression.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• The fight against vote suppression and election sabotage is one of the biggest moral fights of our era.
  — The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
• The military’s brutal suppression of peaceful protests against the coup led many to fight back.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Fire suppression efforts cost the state millions and the governor's office claimed the agency would pay for 100% of the price tag.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 June 2022
• The suppression of fires in California over the last century has left the forests with a heavy load of fuel.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
• Picking up an orb while in max power will now give it suppression.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• In my sport of swimming, the requirement is one year of hormone suppression.
  — Riley Gaines, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Voter suppression carries a prison sentence of 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison.
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune, 6 June 2024
• Above all, the suppression of the protests depends on the tools of China’s digital surveillance state.
  — Isabel Hilton, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• This act of suppression caused Coates to show up at a school board meeting in support of the teacher’s concerns about book bans and censorship.
  — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
• For decades, the U.S. fire policy was suppression: extinguish and prevent all fires across the landscape—even the good kind.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
• The fuel spilled into a fire suppression line, sat there for six months and then spilled again when a cart rammed into it in November.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 1 July 2022
• So all of these things are connected—all of the suppression of information about the female body.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 June 2022
• Kimsey said that the fire suppression system in the Vancouver ballot box did not work.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
• The technique was highly effective, but the contrail-suppression equipment added 400 pounds to the bomber, reducing the bomb load.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• These entities abused their power to achieve a common goal: the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
  — Elizabeth Stauffer, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• But in addition, Texas has some of the most stringent voter suppression laws in the country, many of which target Latinos.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Tiktok's entire case, like talking to that judge, was First Amendment and free speech suppression.
  — Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• The fire department was on the scene in 10 minutes, city officials said, but fire suppression was not working.
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2023
• The lever the council used to turn its racist animus into racist action was the suppression of tenant power.
  — Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• Democrats say action is still needed to combat a new wave of voter suppression that is sweeping the country.
  — Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 12 Mar. 2022
• If a fire rekindles or escapes, the person who set it is liable for any damage caused, as well as for wildfire suppression costs.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2024
• Araud said some diplomats saw the suppression of the diplomatic corps as a form of punishment or demotion.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
• In Washington, Clark County officials said at least 488 ballots were damaged as a result of a failure of the fire suppression system in its box.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
• Advocates vow to fight voter suppression before and after ballots are cast.
  — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024