How to Use repression in a Sentence

repression

noun

• They survived 60 years of political repression.
• There is still a way to stop such repression.
  — Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
• That, of course, risks more of the same repression.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
• All the tools of torture and repression are still there to be used.
  — Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
• That’s the right word, repression.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
• And so this cycle of protest and repression, too, could pass.
  — Davood Moradian, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• Two decades of state repression have not denied this new wave of anger its bloody agency.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• The repression has not spared minors.
  — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
• This history of repression is very much alive.
  — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
• But repression may not have been the only factor in the movement’s demise.
  — Christina Knight, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
• For artists, the former military era came with a heavy dose of repression.
  — Emily Fishbein, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2021
• Is this, to your mind, emotional repression or a healthy way of getting through loss?
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• But those hopes dimmed as the protests fizzled out, subsumed by a wave of arrests and mass repression.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
• But a pattern of repression has already emerged in towns and cities around Afghanistan.
  — Rob Picheta, Nadine Schmidt and Tim Lister, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
• But the regime remains in power, still wielding its tools of repression.
  — Romesh Ratnesar, Air Mail, 6 June 2026
• For the first time, repression forces may fear for their own survival just as protesters have for years.
  — Richard Goldberg, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
• Khamenei must know that threats, bluster, and repression cannot stop the uprising.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
• But the line between self-protection and self-repression is thin.
  — Franklin Schneider, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
• But repression alone is no longer sufficient.
  — Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
• The report breaks down the repression into three distinct stages.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• There was an economic crisis, and there was naked repression.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• Due to its size and the scale/quality of its repression, China stands out here.
  — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
• There’s the quiet of peace and serenity, and the quiet of repression and shame.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
• Duque has since withdrawn the reforms, but the scenes on the street have been one of brutal police repression.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2021
• That government support has led to fierce repression of any protests against the pipeline.
  — David Vetter, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Couldn’t someone maybe have talked about the repression of the leaders of Iran on the other hand?
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
• In this way, repression and chaos suit each other, hand in glove—at least so long as that hand is engaged in the writing process.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• To this day, their armed forces remain tainted by the weight of their misrule and repression some 50 years ago.
  — Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
• The goal is not denial or emotional repression.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• The question this analysis raises is how long the regime of central bank repression will last.
  — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021