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
• In fact, the right’s efforts to suppress the vote have already had an impact.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The forestry division is not taking any action to suppress the fire at this time.
  — Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 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
• Warm sea water fuels storms, so this tends to suppress them.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2022
• Zee and her team say that the small amount of light used was likely not enough to suppress melatonin production.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Apr. 2022
• To suppress the noise, Osborne breathed in between hiccups.
  — Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022
• 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
• To replicate, viruses need to suppress the genes of the host cell and instead favor synthesis of their own.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 May 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
• And suppressing this noise somehow gives these people that extra pleasure.
  — Peter Burke, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2024
• Similarly, many people have suppressed symptoms of an infection to engage in some sort of social obligation.
  — Sebastian Stockmaier, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024