How to Use the oppressed in a Sentence

the oppressed

noun

• P!nk has long stood up for the bullied and the oppressed.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 June 2023
• Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed—the actual oppressed.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
• Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
• What matters to us is supporting the oppressed in Gaza.
  — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Our faith, in its wisdom, enjoins us to be the enemy of the oppressor and an aid to the oppressed.
  — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes even a dialogue emerged on the walls between the oppressed and the oppressor.
  — Pouya Afshar, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
• In recent months, Mahomes has taken on a mantle of the oppressed victim.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
• For the oppressed, violence can feel like the only way out of a life that is otherwise encased by walls, like the only means of survival.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• Du Bois positions the child as a messiah figure who will someday rescue the oppressed darker races of the world.
  — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• With Ukrainian Jews again on collective minds this year, freedom for the oppressed makes Passover even more meaningful.
  — Ethel G. Hofman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• Harbaugh’s suspension gives UM an excuse to cosplay as the oppressed.
  — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• So all their proxy troublemakers, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have in one day gone from being the oppressed underdogs to feared aggressors in the world’s eyes.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2024
• The organization pledges to help widows and refugees, young men and women, disaster victims and the oppressed from Milwaukee to Greece to Nigeria.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
• In their view, the oppressed Shiite conscripts who had happily gone home during the invasion were not going to rally to the summons of a bunch of Sunni senior officers tied to the ancien régime.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
• Social and political movements in the Muslim world have long been fueled and inspired by the narrative of Ashura, of the oppressed rising up against an oppressor.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
• With half a million followers on the popular social media platform and 8.3 million likes, Lev says his message, of fighting hate and standing up for the oppressed, is a universal one.
  — Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• Sen regularly takes up against issues that bother her and is an outspoken voice for the oppressed in India against political regimes, no matter what their hue.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
• Many rebellions against China’s official rulers came from millenarian groups and religious cults that sprang up among the oppressed.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The defendants deny the accusations, presenting themselves as crusaders using their 1st Amendment rights to stand up for the oppressed.
  — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Her songs often came from a place of interior anguish, but whenever her words rose in volume or pitch, her voice quite literally seemed to be standing up for the vulnerable and the oppressed.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• In this intersectional worldview, the fight against Israel — and often its very existence — becomes part of a global battle of the oppressed for justice and equality.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Tragically, many no longer see ourselves as in solidarity with the oppressed.
  — Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• But for many members of the young left, the massacre of Israeli innocents represents a glitch in a moral dogma that reduces most political conflict to an underlying battle between the oppressor and the oppressed.
  — TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
• More than previous pontiffs, though, the first Latin American pope has also championed human rights, seeing the downtrodden, the underdogs and the oppressed as his primary cause.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• More importantly, Girard provides a structure in which conservatives—not a group usually known for their sympathy for the oppressed—can construe themselves as victims.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• More importantly, Girard provides a structure in which conservatives—not a group usually known for their sympathy for the oppressed—can construe themselves as victims.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Her recurring theme is the unending cycle of violence among exploitative landlords, the oppressed tribal people, and the military, whose frontline soldiers are also young Adivasis.
  — Alpa Shah, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
• My ire has also targeted anti-Zionists, who reduce the complex morality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a simplistic narrative of the oppressed against their oppressors.
  — Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024