How to Use repress in a Sentence

repress

verb
  • Religious groups were severely repressed.
  • The parts of me that had been repressed for so long all came a bit too much to a head.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This week is pushing you to speak up and stop repressing your truth.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Midlife is often talked about as this time of the return of the repressed.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Try not to judge it, and don't put pressure on yourself to repress it.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2021
  • That’s why somebody that represses fear may not be able to sleep well at night.
    — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 5 July 2017
  • Don’t repress your thoughts, but don’t react just to prove a point either.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • This in turn gave voice to and brought into the open the strong hatred that had been repressed by many.
    — Howard County Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The fungus is repressed by the acidic layer at the soil’s surface.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Germany was big at repressing it because the guilt was so huge, and the crimes so huge.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The irony, of course, is that the good doctor has to keep shooting up to repress the beast within him.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 June 2017
  • Grant said that from a young age, society expects boys to repress their emotions.
    — NBC News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Maduro views much of his opposition as right-wing oligarchs who have long repressed the poor.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2017
  • All of the smaller characters might have been repressed a little bit.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2018
  • But there were too few like Díaz, and the excitement of that day was quickly repressed.
    — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • The dog was irrepressible, and his master didn’t try to repress him.
    — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • The fact of this is somewhere in the background, also squashed, also repressed.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Judd and Warhol are so clean and repressed by comparison.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Each wave was brutally repressed.
    — Behnam Ben Taleblu, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Under state law, persons named in such a report can ask a judge to repress certain parts, or all, of it.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • What rule of law is there in a country where justice is used by the military to repress people?
    — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 18 June 2023
  • But the medication is only a band-aid to repress the root cause of their problems.
    — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Searching for your part in your life’s low ebbs might lead you to repress your own suffering or, worse, compound it.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
  • All that the military can do is kind of pull the fangs out of the regime’s ability to repress people.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Someone trying to keep the clicks coming to make a living, or a leader of the repressed?
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • To affirm a just cause for Putin’s reprisals, the regime needs to repress the record of Stalin’s.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • There are so many repressed in men and women about being themselves and loving themselves.
    — Wilder Davies, Time, 14 June 2018
  • Either way, something is repressed in Eleanor that is not with Theodora.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • This also is the country that represses women and civil rights.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 31 July 2019
  • Suppressing or repressing what happened last year can be like trying to hide a ferret in your pants.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

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