How to Use repressed in a Sentence

repressed

adjective

• Which are the myths and which are the repressed memories?
  — Juneameliarose, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2020
• The boat ride met my repressed need to let great distances sink in.
  — Alli Harvey, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 July 2017
• If that’s not return-of-the-repressed enough, the old war resurfaces as well.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Peter’s the repressed guy, and that may have been a good thing for me to be playing at that time.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• Freud saw dreams as the fulfilment of a repressed wish.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• One of the most repressed things for Black people in this country has been our voice.
  — Reid Singer, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• The waves of the sea roll fitfully like surges of repressed desire.
  — Minh Nguyen, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
• There’s a kind of a cliche that Americans are very open and Brits are very repressed.
  — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 14 Sep. 2024
• But Dreamhouse Ken isn’t the barely repressed macho dope of the movie.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• Michelle Williams plays Lizzy in a wavy mop of brown hair, with a slight frown, so that her whole demeanor seems repressed and a bit frumpy.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• The forest that once repressed sharp rays of sun had given away to stretches of black ash.
  — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• At one point, a throwback to the baroque era emerges amid the edgy soundscape, like a repressed memory.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
• Repression building Protests over the vote in the streets of Venezuela have been fiercely repressed.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• The bite mark struck Dahl as proof maybe she had been involved and repressed memories from that night.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• From Lexington and the Bastille to the streets of Algiers, the toll on a repressed people seeking freedom is steep.
  — Zeke J Miller, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
• Benzion’s arrival heralds, for Blum, the return of the repressed.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• The repressed emotions fracture her in two as a dark creature sprouts from deep within her.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 May 2022
• In the 1960s, college students across the country fought so that repressed ideas would receive a fair hearing.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• The film telegraphs that the true romance will be between Loretta and Alan, the repressed brain and the impractical brawn.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• It’s the You that has all those repressed memories and feelings from your childhood that resurface from time to time.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Doing so brings her to meet another night-type, Eli (Belmont Cameli), who has a repressed past of his own.
  — Angela Andaloro, EW.com, 23 June 2022
• Though the characters that live in this 1950s era are repressed, the show is so bold in representation.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 July 2024
• The woman who suspected Robert of taking Alexis said the idea had come to her as part of a repressed memory.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• All of it, the fake delivery truck, the cell, the blinding lights, just so a repressed little man could issue threats and shuffle papers at his desk.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• There is a certain kind of return of the repressed when the father who is kept out of history raises the son who must return and destroy.
  — Emily Burack, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021
• Do not let repressed anger build up and turn into a physical ailment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2020
• Even those who are not members of a repressed minority can now feel the weight of the country’s influence.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2020
• The show is heavy on painting — return of the repressed, baby! — and, despite its posthuman inquiries, light on new media.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• The show for me is all about removing this repressed sensual and erotic energy that has been in place for so long.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
• Skye’s story is riddled with trap doors that keep opening into her repressed reality, and Naomi Scott plays this with great skill.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024