How to Use repression in a Sentence

repression

noun

• They survived 60 years of political repression.
• The report breaks down the repression into three distinct stages.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• That government support has led to fierce repression of any protests against the pipeline.
  — David Vetter, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• In certain environments, stoic repression of such memories was a way to move forward.
  — Tian MacLeod Ji, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2022
• The roundup is part of a sweeping campaign of repression that several governments have designated a genocide.
  — Russell Contreras, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
• But certainly, that kind of minority repression is completely wrong from an American point of view.
  — Nina Xiang, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Congress must strengthen the government’s ability to fight such transnational repression.
  — Masih Alinejad, National Review, 10 Sep. 2024
• At a time of mounting repression and censorship, the march for equality presses forward—at least for cisgender straight men on reality TV.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2022
• But then his administration quickly veered into dictatorship, brutal repression and corruption, as many do.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2024
• But the blossoming was short-lived, and in 2016 repression was in full swing.
  — Masha Borak, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
• But repression may not have been the only factor in the movement’s demise.
  — Christina Knight, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
• In some cases, the repression took on more extreme forms.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• But those hopes dimmed as the protests fizzled out, subsumed by a wave of arrests and mass repression.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
• Two decades of state repression have not denied this new wave of anger its bloody agency.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• In this way, repression and chaos suit each other, hand in glove—at least so long as that hand is engaged in the writing process.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The second was under the Brigade for the repression of economic crime, the official said.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 20 June 2023
• The series turns on repression: Franco’s regime’s, Airam’s, Spain’s….
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
• Stunned by the scale of repression, the study’s authors saw fit to compare Ortega’s Nicaragua to Germany under the Nazis.
  — TIME, 2 May 2024
• This form of expression feels so much more honest to me, stacking repression on top of humor on top of x, y, and z.
  — Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
• Yet the defining symbol of the protests has been the holding up of a blank sheet of paper, a fill-in-your-own-punchline to the absurd joke that is Chinese state repression.
  — Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• For now, despite fears of greater repression, the opposition crowds have remained out on the streets.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
• Less explored was the role of the Constitution, which has always been more friend than foe to the American way of repression.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• One of these countries is Turkey, which for years was seen as a safe haven for Uyghurs fleeing Chinese repression.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• And the people are often the primary victims of the CCP's aggression and repression.
  — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2023
• The revolutionary courts were key to Khamenei’s repression of the Green Movement.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
• During his final statement to the court a week ago, Kara-Murza said the trial had turned the clock back to the 1930s, the height of Stalinist political repression.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
• During his final statement to the court a week ago, Kara-Murza said that the trial had turned the clock back to the 1930s, the height of Stalinist political repressions.
  — Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
• And that will not stop us in any way from pushing back and speaking out on Iran's brutal repression of its citizens and its women.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2022
• For the comic payoff to work, Elinor has to be a master of repression, bottling up all emotion until that point.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The secrets of his success are the atomization of the Russian population and the elite through repression, and adaptation to the challenges the regime faces.
  — Alexander Gabuev, The Atlantic, 29 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024