How to Use oppressive in a Sentence

oppressive

adjective

• The country is ruled by an oppressive regime.
• I think these laws are oppressive.
• This region suffers from oppressive heat in the summer months.
• The situation was extremely tense; no one said a word, and the silence was oppressive.
• The United States has coped with oppressive heat the past few weeks.
  — Monica Garrett, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• There are also oppressive, racist groups that seem to be linked to overuse of psychedelics.
  — Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2022
• Eager to be free of the house with its oppressive low ceilings.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The Tigrayans had been oppressive rulers, Menber said, and the Amhara had borne the brunt of their aggression for too long.
  — Ann Neumann, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• Making the movie left the duo laboring for 100 days in the oppressive heat of the Oklahoma plains.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• Much of the central and southern parts of the country are in the grips of yet another oppressive heat wave.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Plenty have spoken over the years about the oppressive sense of duty felt by The Royals.
  — Leila Latif, Chron, 5 Nov. 2022
• In the shadows of an oppressive regime, silence can be a language of love.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Highs in the 80s are not eye-catching, but the humidity is oppressive for the next two days.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• But millions of Afghans fear the group will return to its brutal and oppressive past.
  — Zahra Nader, Time, 20 Aug. 2021
• Forecasts show the oppressive heat across much of the West is expected to last through at least Friday.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
• This is when the weather is warm enough to be enjoyable but not yet oppressive.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
• Women have since abandoned their hijabs and cut their hair in a show of protest to the Khamenei regime’s oppressive practices.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
• The cold front is forecast to slice through temperatures in the region and, at least briefly, put an end to the oppressive heat.
  — Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• Two levels below ground at the Grant Park North Garage, the summer heat feels oppressive.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• The oppressive noon heat stifled my brain while sweat streamed from my temples.
  — Alexis Landau, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
• Not surprisingly, in a climate of oppressive racial tension in the Deep South, the Barons were an all-white team in the days of Mays’ youth.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2021
• Ozai is the villain of the piece, the latest in a line of oppressive and colonizing leaders of the Fire Nation.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2021
• Hala has timed our visit for late afternoon, when the heat isn't so oppressive and the crowds have thinned.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2021
• Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled their homes, with many fearing a return to the Taliban’s oppressive rule.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021
• Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled their homes, with many fearing a return to the Taliban's oppressive rule.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2021
• By that logic, the Union is the oppressive force, and her movement is the real resistance.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
• Don’t bow to that voice in your head that bludgeons you with oppressive words such as must and have to that demotivate you.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• What was once an oppressive series of rooms is now a bustling hub for family life.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 3 Aug. 2023
• Over the past 11 days, a rebel alliance charged through Syria in the boldest challenge to the Assad rule in years – following decades of brutal reign by the Assad dynasty marked by fighting, bloodshed and an oppressive political crackdown.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
• But that sensibility seems especially widespread right now at the tail end of an already challenging year, and on the precipice of what is bound to be an exhausting, oppressive period.
  — James Factora, Them, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024