How to Use oppression in a Sentence

oppression

noun

• The scale and the cost of these years of oppression is hard to calculate.
  — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
• The oppression of the Uighurs seems to be the main obstacle.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
• The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• Cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth.
  — Abigail Pogrebin, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
• And that kindness in the face of oppression, greed and threat is herculean.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 May 2021
• Dogs as tools of oppression go way back in this country.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2022
• The trauma from decades of oppression lives in our bodies.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 1 June 2020
• The squeaking and clanging of a cell door seems to carry the echo of centuries of oppression.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• But over the decades, this source of civic pride became a symbol of oppression.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Dave Chapelle is on our side in the struggle against oppression.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• Rivers sees this as the result of a long history of oppression.
  — Serena Lin, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• Like, a lot of oppression is just ingrained in kids, from such a young age.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• These are the forces far more powerful than fear and oppression.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
• And that in and of itself is another form of oppression.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 6 June 2018
• One of them being the different systems of oppression that have been in place.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 May 2021
• Our time to escape the oppression of a deadly virus and make our schools and workplaces safe for return.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2021
• And to invent oppression when none is happening to you?
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2020
• The trickle down effect of all sort of oppression lands on black women, trans or not.
  — Gina Martinez, Time, 7 June 2019
• They have been refused the freedom to simply be, without the weight of oppression on their backs.
  — Fox News, 19 Feb. 2022
• This is about systemic oppression that has been rampant in this country for decades on top of decades.
  — Rick Maese, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
• Free to choose a future where are all equal and unburdened by the oppression of those who would choose to divide us.
  — Ahmad Ibsais, Teen Vogue, 18 July 2019
• There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
• There is be power in expressing joy in the face of systemic oppression.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 28 June 2021
• So many have used their oppression as an excuse for mediocrity.
  — Coleman Hughes, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• Viskhan sees the crackdowns as part of wider oppression that has taken root in recent years.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 26 July 2019
• Nothing in your life should be one size fits all— that’s oppression, beloved.
  — Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• In any system of oppression, the onus is on those who benefit to address the issue head on.
  — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• They’re born of a kind of suffering and the oppression of an entire race over a long period.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• This is the kind of history that tries to make up for neglect, oppression, and other sins.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
• His sense of oppression never quite left him, nor did the compulsion to find an escape hatch.
  — Charles Baxter, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024