How to Use repress in a Sentence

repress

verb

• Religious groups were severely repressed.
• To affirm a just cause for Putin’s reprisals, the regime needs to repress the record of Stalin’s.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Midlife is often talked about as this time of the return of the repressed.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• This in turn gave voice to and brought into the open the strong hatred that had been repressed by many.
  — Howard County Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• The irony, of course, is that the good doctor has to keep shooting up to repress the beast within him.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 June 2017
• For the first 10 years of Elway’s career, he was repressed in the offense of Dan Reeves.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2017
• Try not to judge it, and don't put pressure on yourself to repress it.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2021
• Germany was big at repressing it because the guilt was so huge, and the crimes so huge.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2017
• But there were too few like Díaz, and the excitement of that day was quickly repressed.
  — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 4 June 2019
• The youth are used as sort of like an apparatus to repress.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
• That’s why somebody that represses fear may not be able to sleep well at night.
  — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 5 July 2017
• The fact of this is somewhere in the background, also squashed, also repressed.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• The military crackdown of the 2010s managed to repress it.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2021
• But the medication is only a band-aid to repress the root cause of their problems.
  — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• The world must stop cozying up to the monsters who repress those trying to bring freedom to the continent.
  — Evan Mawarire, National Review, 12 Feb. 2023
• The dog was irrepressible, and his master didn’t try to repress him.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 1 Jan. 2018
• What rule of law is there in a country where justice is used by the military to repress people?
  — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 18 June 2023
• All of the smaller characters might have been repressed a little bit.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2018
• Maduro views much of his opposition as right-wing oligarchs who have long repressed the poor.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2017
• To be gay, as the beliefs go, is to be unacceptable to God, and the only way to avoid sinning is to repress and kill that part of yourself.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• Beijing views civil society — the life of the Chinese apart from the dominance of the party — as a threat to its rule and moves to repress it.
  — Dexter Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• Searching for your part in your life’s low ebbs might lead you to repress your own suffering or, worse, compound it.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
• Choose instead, as Gigi has done, to add slouch to a Sloane Ranger’s uniform, all camel and denim and repressed hotness.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
• Namdar has no thesis, and the novel does not suggest that the return of the repressed would be easy or even productive.
  — Josh Lambert, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• Grant said that from a young age, society expects boys to repress their emotions.
  — NBC News, 29 Mar. 2022
• The first protests, violently repressed by the Cameroonian armed forces, broke out two years ago.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
• On top of that, there’s a lot of something-something about how the corporate music money machine wants to repress the artist’s wildest urges.
  — Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Same old story: repress human nature too much and disaster follows.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• With little protection against illnesses like smallpox, tuberculosis or plague, people would have been immobilized by fear if not for the ability to repress reality.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024