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.
• Eight years later, Rose bites his lip to suppress a laugh.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
• And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Until then, Somers will suppress his urge to claw deeper into the earth.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• People try to avoid them, suppress them or ignore them.
  — Heather Lench, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2024
• The rate hikes have slowly helped to suppress inflation, though perhaps not as quickly as the Fed had hoped.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Your process was suppressed for years under pressure to hide your true self from others.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Studies have showed the class of drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, work to suppress appetite and promote weight loss.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The resulting footage, which aired on the news, captured the N.Y.P.D.’s brutal tactics for suppressing the protest.
  — Miss Rosen, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• But the bitterly cold weather and nearly 2 feet of snow that has blanketed the state could suppress turnout.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• While you may be tempted to try to suppress earworms, Kellaris cautions against it.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• Avoid suppressing a cough, which helps get rid of excess sputum.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• First, as the virus evolves so has our immune system — learning how to suppress the infection.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
• For instance, the black holes may suppress—or promote—further bouts of star formation.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• The June Days insurrection was leaderless and brutally suppressed by the army, with vast loss of life.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• The parent company of the National Enquirer bought the rights to her story, but it was suppressed.
  — Sarah Swetlik | [e-mail], al, 30 Mar. 2023
• According to the New Zealand Herald, prior to mid-July 2023, much of the information in the case had been suppressed.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• But in the meantime, some users are criticizing Musk for suppressing free speech by blocking retweets and likes to Substack links.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 9 Apr. 2023
• Noise from the road is suppressed; however, a significant amount of wind noise penetrates the doors.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
• Crews have been working to install a sprawling cover designed to suppress odors in the affected portion of the landfill.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Once the bubbles are inside, the molecules can suppress the infectious mold cells.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• That kind of fix penalizes the victim, suppressing their genuine work and profile as platforms scramble to quell the spread of deepfakes.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Democrats contend those efforts are being made to suppress votes in urban centers.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Dextromethorphan suppresses a cough by targeting the part of the brain that causes coughing.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024