How to Use oppressed in a Sentence

oppressed

adjective
  • Even the long oppressed Russian people would cheer.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Chandan doesn’t want to be identified as someone from an oppressed caste.
    — Anupama Chopra, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The lack of space, light, and freedom wears on the mental health and well-being of the hidden and oppressed.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Any oppressed people find outlets in humor.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Dahl had no record of support for other minority, oppressed or marginalized group.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Many teens feel suffocated by their surroundings, but these four probably have better cause than most to feel oppressed.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
  • What is certain is that this impassioned novel has made a case for a kind of epic where the fate of a nation depends on its most oppressed identities.
    — Siddhartha Deb, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • So bringing something that’s a little edgier and a little darker feels like the way theater should go, and usually goes when people feel oppressed.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
  • With a lightness of style and use of cinematic language that led us into a society of oppressed youth and passive leadership.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 13 June 2024
  • Kid is a member of an oppressed race who was driven to terrorism by the acts of the corporation that destroyed his home planet and vilified his race.
    — Ryan Woodrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
  • Trump may hope that Americans will rally behind a campaign to rid the world of a bloody terrorist regime and give an oppressed people a chance at freedom.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Again and again, American planners have assumed that if the right spark is provided, oppressed people will seize the moment and revolt.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There is no oppressor and no oppressed, no one victorious and no one defeated, no legacies of guilt or victimization.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Alper used his speech to express solidarity with oppressed people everywhere.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Harvard is the first Ivy League school to spotlight the discrimination students from oppressed and marginalised castes face on campus.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
  • When hurtful names are removed from roads, some members of oppressed communities describe how the spirit or feeling of places can change and allow healing to begin.
    — Daniel Oto-Peralías, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
  • One of the reasons why Muslims fast during Ramadan is to remember those who are oppressed or suffering, and to share in those emotions.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Irish were the original oppressed people from the English Empire, and the original colony.
    — Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • At this point, the onus is on the brands and media outlets who are still beholden to uplifting certain body types, to provide visibility to those who live in the most oppressed bodies.
    — Stephanie Yeboah, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
  • In each fictional universe, an oppressed group stages a revolution that fights for political and economic freedom.
    — Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • However, women remain deeply oppressed under the Taliban, having been mostly banned from public life, workplaces, and school beyond the sixth grade.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 25 June 2023
  • Thoughts of American battlefield heroes might conjure up images of overseas valor in service of oppressed and conquered people around the world.
    — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The song had an aggressive, staccato beat and vocal delivery; the general theme was Michael as an oppressed underdog fighting back.
    — Dan Beck, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Enslaved Blacks, Baumgartner notes, were not the only oppressed people who sought asylum in Mexico.
    — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
  • For me, DuBose represents the legions of oppressed and frustrated women from that era, my mother included.
    — David Baldacci, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The 2022 protests demonstrated that women, alongside other oppressed and disadvantaged groups, are at the heart of these movements.
    — Narges Mohammadi, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
  • That response in turn triggered a backlash from the right, who insisted that Agnew had approached the piece intent on portraying Hannah as an oppressed trad wife.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Danger is magnified for women who are Dalits, the name for people born into the most oppressed castes in South Asia’s rigid hierarchy.
    — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Even after slavery’s end, the region continued its reliance on oppressed labor – sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and people who had been convicted of crimes.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
  • One of whom is Gallatin, an elf and warrior who creates more plot-handy conflict by clashing with the elven queen Francesca over the right way to find liberation for their oppressed people.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 4 July 2023

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