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
• Heavy ice sheets once depressed the land down into the mantle, like the seat cushions of a couch.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Even though his tariffs largely spare the oil and gas industry, the effects of his larger trade war could further depress both oil prices and global demand for fossil fuels.
  — Michael L. Ross, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2025
• Most Fed officials are worried surging import taxes could depress growth while restarting what had been cooling inflation pressures.
  — Michael S. Derby, USA Today, 24 June 2025