How to Use repressed in a Sentence

repressed

adjective

• And of course, our sweet, repressed boys steal the show.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
• The boat ride met my repressed need to let great distances sink in.
  — Alli Harvey, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 July 2017
• The deeply repressed make great ghost fodder.
  — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
• Like Freud’s return of the repressed.
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
• If that’s not return-of-the-repressed enough, the old war resurfaces as well.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• The waves of the sea roll fitfully like surges of repressed desire.
  — Minh Nguyen, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
• The forest that once repressed sharp rays of sun had given away to stretches of black ash.
  — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• That’s because repressed emotions have a way of clawing their way back.
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
• One of the most repressed things for Black people in this country has been our voice.
  — Reid Singer, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• Also, give your shadow self a hug and tend to the repressed parts of your heart and nature.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025
• The gothic genre is well suited to repressed stories.
  — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
• Do not let repressed anger build up and turn into a physical ailment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2020
• The repressed emotions fracture her in two as a dark creature sprouts from deep within her.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 May 2022
• You could be confronted with repressed thoughts or emotional wounds from the past.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 9 June 2025
• At one point, a throwback to the baroque era emerges amid the edgy soundscape, like a repressed memory.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
• There’s a kind of a cliche that Americans are very open and Brits are very repressed.
  — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 14 Sep. 2024
• The bite mark struck Dahl as proof maybe she had been involved and repressed memories from that night.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• Wimbledon is a tournament that brings those repressed emotions to the fore, win or lose.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
• Another man may know his child better than him, and what could be worse for a repressed, overworked father?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
• The story of their year seemed well established by mid-March as one of repressed talent.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026
• But Dreamhouse Ken isn’t the barely repressed macho dope of the movie.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• To me, Betsy is a repressed housewife who is trying to make it as a musician.
  — Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
• The challenge is to convey all that pent-up, repressed energy, emotion.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• For you, the equinox marks a time to face repressed emotions and memories that have been lingering in your psyche for a while.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
• Michelle Williams plays Lizzy in a wavy mop of brown hair, with a slight frown, so that her whole demeanor seems repressed and a bit frumpy.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 May 2022
• The more involved Jana becomes, the more she is forced to confront her past and her repressed memories.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
• Benzion’s arrival heralds, for Blum, the return of the repressed.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• The show for me is all about removing this repressed sensual and erotic energy that has been in place for so long.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
• Even those who are not members of a repressed minority can now feel the weight of the country’s influence.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2020
• Repression building Protests over the vote in the streets of Venezuela have been fiercely repressed.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024