Sentences with oppress
op·press
O o - These people often are oppressed by the governments of the countries they find themselves in. [be VERB-ed]
- The place oppressed Aubrey even before his eyes adjusted to the dark. [VERB noun]
- Argues that it is too simplistic to say products like eye-lash curlers and hoop skirts were thought up specifically to oppress women.
- I would remind them that there are many individuals and organisations within our society who actively oppress gay, lesbian, bisexual.
- A people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- Care and sorrow oppressed them.
- Control and oppress various minority groups.
- There are ignorant politicians working hard to oppress Muslim women and take away their basic freedom of practising their religion.
- The law exists to protect the vulnerable, and not as an instrument by which the strong oppress the weak.