downtrodden - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • mass: Which according to Parsons, was the securing of freedom for the downtrodden masses of Iraq.
  • girl: Instead of finding a downtrodden girl, we instead met someone who was surviving.
  • worker: The downtrodden workers do a good job of defending themselves.
  • woman: Inside WT helps release some downtrodden Swiss women and children, whom the beastly Spider was planning to deport to Austria.
  • people: It was also agreed that the most downtrodden people would be the first ones we would help.
  • wife: In 2002 she returned to the stage to play a downtrodden wife in a West End stage production of the play Benefactors.

Modifying Another Word

  • hilariously: Harvey Pekar, the hilariously downtrodden Cleveland comic book artist, is the subject of AMERICAN SPLENDOR, titled after Pekar's autobiographical series.
  • very: When she arrived at the Women's Refuge, she was very downtrodden.
  • historically: Yesterday's masses were overwhelmingly the poorer - and historically downtrodden - Shia, who form 40 % of the population.
  • truly: A standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden.

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