How to Use repression in a Sentence

repression

noun

• They survived 60 years of political repression.
• But the blossoming was short-lived, and in 2016 repression was in full swing.
  — Masha Borak, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
• There’s the quiet of peace and serenity, and the quiet of repression and shame.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 Mar. 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
• The report breaks down the repression into three distinct stages.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• The threat to Russia’s free press, which has dealt with years of repression, may be existential.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
• 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
• That government support has led to fierce repression of any protests against the pipeline.
  — David Vetter, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The bar hums with accents from all corners of Russia, as newcomers fret about the repression at home.
  — Conor Sheils, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
• 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
• So, this album came out of necessity, out of the need to let everything out, to let that fear out, all this repression.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
• China’s campaign of repression against the Uighurs is not confined to Xinjiang.
  — Time, 24 Mar. 2022
• 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
• But human rights are relevant to all of us, not just to those who face repression or mistreatment.
  — Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Born at a time when conformity and repression were the cultural norms, Mad’s irreverence would affect TV shows and movies for decades and encourage young people to question the world around them.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
• Amid censorship and repression, truth is a rare commodity, and stating a humble and obvious truth, like the boy who queried the Emperor’s new clothes, can have a decisive effect.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024