How to Use suppress in a Sentence

suppress

verb

• The governor tried to suppress the news.
• She could not suppress her anger.
• He struggled to suppress his feelings of jealousy.
• I had to suppress an urge to tell him what I really thought.
• Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
• We’re taught to suppress violence and abuse and so that gives abusers space to thrive.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
• Plant spinach in between turnip rows to suppress weeds.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2024
• In fact, the right’s efforts to suppress the vote have already had an impact.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• Eight years later, Rose bites his lip to suppress a laugh.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
• That means that any enduring drop in births should suppress bond yields in the long term.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
• Watch the video above to find out how middle-class wages are being suppressed.
  — Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
• Those involved in the Tates’ PR efforts have gone to great lengths to suppress those who speak out against them.
  — Ioana Erdei, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
• And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• So much of life teaches you to suppress emotion and teaches you to fear it and to not see it as a strength.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 July 2025
• In other words, will this block suppress the storm track south or allow the storm to inch northward?
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2021
• Cough Drops Sucking on cough drops can suppress a cough and moisten a dry, scratchy throat.
  — Jessica Migala, Health, 19 June 2024
• For now, the hope is that their spread can be suppressed in some way, possibly by targeting the queens of the ant colonies.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Givan said the bills bring to mind the tactics used to suppress the Black vote before the civil rights movement.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2021
• Neither the church nor the French First Republic could suppress the santons for long.
  — Kathleen Brady, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• None of us want to be the weak link in our efforts to suppress the rampant and vicious cybercrime.
  — Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• The government sued to suppress them, and while the case made its way through the courts, Ellsberg leaked the papers to The Washington Post.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• Critics say these efforts aim to suppress the true racial history of the U.S.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• The forestry division is not taking any action to suppress the fire at this time.
  — Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2022
• Until then, Somers will suppress his urge to claw deeper into the earth.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• Treatment can suppress the virus to a point where it is no longer detected in a person’s body.
  — Billboard, 4 Aug. 2021
• But since the end of the first world war, all four countries have tried to suppress the Kurds’ culture and restricted the use of the Kurdish language.
  — The Economist, 13 Apr. 2021
• People try to avoid them, suppress them or ignore them.
  — Heather Lench, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2024
• Warm sea water fuels storms, so this tends to suppress them.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2022
• His leadership stems from the very vulnerability that he had been taught to suppress.
  — William Jones, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
• Instead, Riddle thinks these carotenoids may be another adaptation to suppress inflammation, which might be important in the wild, as cavefish are likely overeating whenever food arrives.
  — ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025