How to Use suppression in a Sentence

suppression

noun

• Most of it flowed into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• In fact, the tree bears no fire scars for 100 years during the policy of fire suppression.
  — David Schechter, Chance Horner, CBS News, 13 July 2023
• The fire was contained in an area of the 11th and 12 floors of the vessel, which has a Halon fire suppression system, city officials said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 July 2023
• The military’s brutal suppression of peaceful protests against the coup led many to fight back.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• In my sport of swimming, the requirement is one year of hormone suppression.
  — Riley Gaines, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Above all, the suppression of the protests depends on the tools of China’s digital surveillance state.
  — Isabel Hilton, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• This act of suppression caused Coates to show up at a school board meeting in support of the teacher’s concerns about book bans and censorship.
  — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
• The technique was highly effective, but the contrail-suppression equipment added 400 pounds to the bomber, reducing the bomb load.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• These entities abused their power to achieve a common goal: the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
  — Elizabeth Stauffer, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• But in addition, Texas has some of the most stringent voter suppression laws in the country, many of which target Latinos.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Tiktok's entire case, like talking to that judge, was First Amendment and free speech suppression.
  — Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• The fire department was on the scene in 10 minutes, city officials said, but fire suppression was not working.
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2023
• The lever the council used to turn its racist animus into racist action was the suppression of tenant power.
  — Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• People have been more focused on fire suppression because of dramatic events, near and far.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• But in the early 1900s, U.S. strategy shifted to fire suppression.
  — Andria Hautamaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Second, decades of fire suppression have allowed forests and wildlands to grow thick with vegetation, priming them to burn hot and fast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• In her case, the lightness is achieved by the suppression of intentionality.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the early nineteenth century a member of the family worked in Parliament for the trade’s suppression.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Her father and grandfather were unable to vote in the South due to racist voter suppression laws such as literacy tests.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• Emerson then grabbed and pulled on the two red handles that would have activated the suppression system, one of the pilots said, according to the documents.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
• But her prescriptions also come close to insisting on the suppression of dissent.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Democrats have regularly claimed the laws were voter suppression despite record early voting in the 2022 elections, the first statewide general election with the new law in place.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• At issue are two state laws regarding suppression of search warrant records.
  — Jonathan Oosting and Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2022
• Because the building has a wet fire suppression system, the temperature needs to be maintained to prevent it from freezing, according to a statement from The Port.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
• The attacks on minorities, the suppression of the press, and the arrest of civil rights activists have attracted scarcely a murmur of disapproval from the State Department or the White House.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Voter suppression has been the strategy that communities of color have had to fight, out maneuver and stay ahead of since our country was born.
  — Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
• Vaillant: Fire suppression is a legitimate culprit for one of the reasons our fire seasons have been so bad in North America.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The fire suppression system on the plane consists of a T-valve handle for each engine, and if those handles are fully deployed, a valve in the wing closes to shut off fuel to the engine, Alaska Airlines said.
  — Amanda Maile, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Right now, because there is this massive buildup of forest due to nearly a century of quite successful fire suppression, the forests are now overloaded.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024