How to Use depress in a Sentence

depress

verb
  • We were all depressed by the loss.
  • The news seemed to depress him a little.
  • The doctor will depress your tongue and look at your throat.
  • Depress the “shift” key on your keyboard.
  • I don't mean to depress you, but there's no way we can win.
  • You shouldn't let this kind of problem depress you.
  • These changes could depress the economy.
  • Slowly depress the car's brake pedal.
  • Market conditions are likely to depress earnings in the next quarter.
  • As with any organ, the longer a key is depressed, the longer the passage plays.
    Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • In the arithmetic of GDP, this depresses the growth rate.
    Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The key wasn’t to shame or depress them, but to motivate.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The fundraising market had been depressed in most sectors for much of the year.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • And to launch the machine’s self-cleaning process, just depress both buttons at the same time.
    Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The shooter then depresses the trigger and holds it down.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2020
  • That has helped depress shares about 35 percent so far this year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Maybe he's depressed his wife cares more about money than him.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • She was depressed with the state of the world and trying to lose herself in nature through bird watching.
    Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The studio noted that outbreaks of the flu and a cold front across much of the country may have depressed ticket sales.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The milk market has been depressed for about three years, and farmers have struggled to break even.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • Trump’s campaign is looking for a way to draw new support -- or depress the vote for Biden.
    Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Few things depress me more than going to sleep in an unmade bed.
    New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Art doesn't always have to be high-stakes and depressing!
    Tom Philip, GQ, 3 July 2018
  • Isn’t the world depressing enough right now without having to see that?
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Retail sales in May, in part, were depressed by falling gas prices.
    Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • Well, let’s just say things have gone a bit better since that depressing freeze-out.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018
  • Since then, the collapse in oil demand due to lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus has depressed prices even more.
    Brian Wingfield, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • There are so many non-optional things in the world to be frustrated by and depressed about.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Also, unions are disincentivized to increase the supply of new workers, which could depress the wages of their members.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • As the film rolls on, Williams plays the idealized Rosemary as worn down and ultimately exhausted at having to parry an inappropriate Max and depressed Herman.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025

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