How to Use repress in a Sentence

repress

verb
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  • To affirm a just cause for Putin’s reprisals, the regime needs to repress the record of Stalin’s.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Midlife is often talked about as this time of the return of the repressed.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Try not to judge it, and don't put pressure on yourself to repress it.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2021
  • But there were too few like Díaz, and the excitement of that day was quickly repressed.
    — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • The youth are used as sort of like an apparatus to repress.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
  • The fact of this is somewhere in the background, also squashed, also repressed.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The military crackdown of the 2010s managed to repress it.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2021
  • But the medication is only a band-aid to repress the root cause of their problems.
    — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The world must stop cozying up to the monsters who repress those trying to bring freedom to the continent.
    — Evan Mawarire, National Review, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The dog was irrepressible, and his master didn’t try to repress him.
    — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 1 Jan. 2018
  • What rule of law is there in a country where justice is used by the military to repress people?
    — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 18 June 2023
  • All of the smaller characters might have been repressed a little bit.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2018
  • To be gay, as the beliefs go, is to be unacceptable to God, and the only way to avoid sinning is to repress and kill that part of yourself.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • Beijing views civil society — the life of the Chinese apart from the dominance of the party — as a threat to its rule and moves to repress it.
    — Dexter Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Searching for your part in your life’s low ebbs might lead you to repress your own suffering or, worse, compound it.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Choose instead, as Gigi has done, to add slouch to a Sloane Ranger’s uniform, all camel and denim and repressed hotness.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Namdar has no thesis, and the novel does not suggest that the return of the repressed would be easy or even productive.
    — Josh Lambert, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Grant said that from a young age, society expects boys to repress their emotions.
    — NBC News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The first protests, violently repressed by the Cameroonian armed forces, broke out two years ago.
    — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
  • On top of that, there’s a lot of something-something about how the corporate music money machine wants to repress the artist’s wildest urges.
    — Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • The reaction is often to repress these calls from within.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • All that is repressed and rejected, hurt and vulnerable, reemerges and Karamo—like the dad so many of us never had—looks the guy in the eye and really sees him.
    — Thomas Page McBee, Teen Vogue, 10 Dec. 2019
  • There are so many repressed in men and women about being themselves and loving themselves.
    — Wilder Davies, Time, 14 June 2018
  • Is Larry truly present, or simply giving voice to the desires Dorothy has repressed?
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Some protests prove more effective than others What determines whether protests will lead the state to reform or to repress?
    — Lisa Mueller, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Sofia comes in, the idea of being repressed having never occurred to her, and rocks Celie’s perception of self so much so that Celie betrays her.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The country was one of the first to rebel against the Soviets, launching a revolution in 1956 that was brutally repressed.
    — Larry Bleiberg, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • It has been documented that Hamas beats and arrests human rights defenders, while Iran uses excessive and lethal force to repress protests.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2024
  • In other parts of the world, many peoples have been subjugated by powerful states, repressed through violence, and denied their political rights.
    — Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

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