repress - use in sentences

Object

  • dissent: Actual war economies typically cite a greater public good when they repress dissent and debate.
  • transcription: He further described how loss of hMLH1 expression is associated with methylation of the gene promoter repressing hMLH1 gene transcription.
  • revolt: Finally, internal measure: as we have seen, using troops to repress a revolt always posed a risk of excess.
  • tendency: At another point there's a very faint suggestion that he may be repressing a tendency toward men.
  • emotion: Do you think men feel they must keep their emotions repressed?
  • opposition: For over 20 years he has maintained control by rigging elections and referendums, savagely repressing all opposition and running a tame national media.

Subject

  • society: Australian Ledger produces a brilliant performance as a tormented soul repressed by a homophobic society.

Adjective complement

  • unconscious: Other things we might actively avoid attending to because we find them painful or disturbing - the repressed unconscious.

Modifying Another Word

  • brutally: Saddam Hussein is a vicious dictator who was brutally repressed the Iraqi people.
  • violently: Any attempt to organize was brutally and violently repressed.
  • sexually: He claimed of the Brothers: " They were very sexually repressed.
  • emotionally: The man in was quiet, hard working, and at that time, emotionally repressed.
  • heavily: Brazilâs Workers Party government has been tainted by corruption allegations, and has heavily repressed movements like the Sem Terra, of landless peasants.
  • often: At independence, the winners assured the reins of political power, while the losers were often repressed, imprisoned or silenced.

Preposition: for

  • year: After the later rebellion in support of ' Bonnie Prince Charlie ' in 1745 the area was seriously repressed for some 40 years.

Preposition: by

  • society: Australian Ledger produces a brilliant performance as a tormented soul repressed by a homophobic society.

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