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
  • 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 | McAson@al.com, 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
  • Range hoods pack electronic chips that suppress the growl of fan motors.
    Benoit Morenne, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The warming can leap back without something to suppress it.
    Chris Mooney, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Studies show that high cortisol can suppress your immune system and increase the risk of health conditions like heart disease.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Aug. 2025

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