How to Use suppress in a Sentence

suppress

verb
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  • I had to suppress an urge to tell him what I really thought.
  • Eight years later, Rose bites his lip to suppress a laugh.
    — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • While you may be tempted to try to suppress earworms, Kellaris cautions against it.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • Avoid suppressing a cough, which helps get rid of excess sputum.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
  • First, as the virus evolves so has our immune system — learning how to suppress the infection.
    — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
  • For instance, the black holes may suppress—or promote—further bouts of star formation.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The June Days insurrection was leaderless and brutally suppressed by the army, with vast loss of life.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The parent company of the National Enquirer bought the rights to her story, but it was suppressed.
    — Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The size, weather and terrain of the area have factored into the difficulty of suppressing the fire, Tracy added.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • According to the New Zealand Herald, prior to mid-July 2023, much of the information in the case had been suppressed.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But in the meantime, some users are criticizing Musk for suppressing free speech by blocking retweets and likes to Substack links.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Noise from the road is suppressed; however, a significant amount of wind noise penetrates the doors.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
  • The lawsuit also argues its own speech is being suppressed.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
  • Crews have been working to install a sprawling cover designed to suppress odors in the affected portion of the landfill.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Once the bubbles are inside, the molecules can suppress the infectious mold cells.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That kind of fix penalizes the victim, suppressing their genuine work and profile as platforms scramble to quell the spread of deepfakes.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But there was very little sound, so it was obviously suppressed — a silenced gun.
    — Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2024

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