How to Use oppression in a Sentence

oppression

noun

• Instead, this is a call for a panoramic view into the structural underpinnings of the use of religion as a tool of oppression.
  — Clay Cane, CNN, 21 July 2022
• As Green's career begins to take off, his friends and co-workers organize a protest against corporate oppression.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• The term is drawing on a broader conceptual model of wakefulness as awareness of anti-Black oppression.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022
• Their slanted grammar, their memories that returned to a terrible past of white supremacy and oppression, a history that challenged the landscape’s beauty.
  — Tema Stauffer, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• People who are multiply marginalized are usually contending with the constancy of oppression.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 7 July 2022
• Supposedly everything is moving forward to produce more equality between men and women, and this clear setback is a little like the film that talks about all of the oppression women face.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 7 July 2022
• The oppression of the Uighurs seems to be the main obstacle.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
• The scale and the cost of these years of oppression is hard to calculate.
  — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
• The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• And that kindness in the face of oppression, greed and threat is herculean.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 May 2021
• There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
• Cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth.
  — Abigail Pogrebin, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
• Like, a lot of oppression is just ingrained in kids, from such a young age.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• Dave Chapelle is on our side in the struggle against oppression.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• But over the decades, this source of civic pride became a symbol of oppression.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• The squeaking and clanging of a cell door seems to carry the echo of centuries of oppression.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• Dogs as tools of oppression go way back in this country.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2022
• The trauma from decades of oppression lives in our bodies.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 1 June 2020
• And the refugees continued to flee the oppression in their countries.
  — arkansasonline.com, 29 June 2024
• Nothing in your life should be one size fits all— that’s oppression, beloved.
  — Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• Rivers sees this as the result of a long history of oppression.
  — Serena Lin, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• These are the forces far more powerful than fear and oppression.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
• Mahsha said Amini’s death was the last straw after decades of oppression.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2022
• They have been refused the freedom to simply be, without the weight of oppression on their backs.
  — Fox News, 19 Feb. 2022
• And that in and of itself is another form of oppression.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 6 June 2018
• Stephanie Land has many things to be mad about, most of them the result of the systemic oppression and erasure of poor people.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Andor looks through the eyes of the unchosen ones — the people who live under the oppression of the Empire, day in and day out.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2022
• The trickle down effect of all sort of oppression lands on black women, trans or not.
  — Gina Martinez, Time, 7 June 2019
• Happy Holidays isn’t the story of the bombing of Gaza, the story of colonization, or the story of the direct oppression of Palestinians.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
• Liberty/Oppression—an emphasis on independence and a rejection of oppression.
  — Terry Szuplat, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024