How to Use suppress in a Sentence

suppress

verb

• The governor tried to suppress the news.
• She could not suppress her anger.
• He struggled to suppress his feelings of jealousy.
• I had to suppress an urge to tell him what I really thought.
• Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
• Plant spinach in between turnip rows to suppress weeds.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2024
• Eight years later, Rose bites his lip to suppress a laugh.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
• Watch the video above to find out how middle-class wages are being suppressed.
  — Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
• Those involved in the Tates’ PR efforts have gone to great lengths to suppress those who speak out against them.
  — Ioana Erdei, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
• And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Cough Drops Sucking on cough drops can suppress a cough and moisten a dry, scratchy throat.
  — Jessica Migala, Health, 19 June 2024
• For now, the hope is that their spread can be suppressed in some way, possibly by targeting the queens of the ant colonies.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Neither the church nor the French First Republic could suppress the santons for long.
  — Kathleen Brady, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• The government sued to suppress them, and while the case made its way through the courts, Ellsberg leaked the papers to The Washington Post.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• Critics say these efforts aim to suppress the true racial history of the U.S.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Until then, Somers will suppress his urge to claw deeper into the earth.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• People try to avoid them, suppress them or ignore them.
  — Heather Lench, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2024
• Dead scale won’t fall off right away, though treatments for scale will probably suppress aphids at the same time.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 21 Sep. 2022
• This in turn will naturally suppress weed growth and reduce the need for weed killers.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
• The rate hikes have slowly helped to suppress inflation, though perhaps not as quickly as the Fed had hoped.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Don’t suppress them Forcing yourself to stop thinking a certain way won’t wish the thoughts away.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 8 Mar. 2023
• Your process was suppressed for years under pressure to hide your true self from others.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Before that was cool, you were encouraged to suppress your African-ness.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
• Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Studies have showed the class of drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, work to suppress appetite and promote weight loss.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• Firefighters again worked overnight to suppress flare-ups.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2024
• The resulting footage, which aired on the news, captured the N.Y.P.D.’s brutal tactics for suppressing the protest.
  — Miss Rosen, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• But the bitterly cold weather and nearly 2 feet of snow that has blanketed the state could suppress turnout.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Russia’s national income statistics have been suppressed from the IMF since 2022 because Putin is afraid to show the world how bad his economy is crumbling across every sector.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
• The award-winning documentarian has yet to voice her version of the events depicted in Nancy’s (Lesley Manville) book — her attempts repeatedly suppressed as others rush to judgment.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024