How to Use the oppressed in a Sentence

the oppressed

noun
  • God hears the cries of the oppressed and calls His church to do the same.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Send care packages to the oppressed?
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
  • At their best, wars can throw off the worst tyrannies and liberate the oppressed.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • There were only the oppressors and the oppressed.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But one weapon that’s always available to the oppressed is the subversive joke.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed—the actual oppressed.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Sandy argued that Michael spoke as an empathetic voice of the oppressed.
    — Dan Beck, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Our faith, in its wisdom, enjoins us to be the enemy of the oppressor and an aid to the oppressed.
    — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes even a dialogue emerged on the walls between the oppressed and the oppressor.
    — Pouya Afshar, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In recent months, Mahomes has taken on a mantle of the oppressed victim.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
  • But the most hollow aspect of all is the lack of any relief for the oppressed Iranian people.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But the most hollow aspect of all is the lack of any relief for the oppressed Iranian people.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2026
  • For the oppressed, violence can feel like the only way out of a life that is otherwise encased by walls, like the only means of survival.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Harbaugh’s suspension gives UM an excuse to cosplay as the oppressed.
    — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Du Bois positions the child as a messiah figure who will someday rescue the oppressed darker races of the world.
    — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Its doctrine held that priests had a responsibility not just to prepare souls for the afterlife but also to fight for the rights of the poor and the oppressed.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Tragically, many no longer see ourselves as in solidarity with the oppressed.
    — Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • With Ukrainian Jews again on collective minds this year, freedom for the oppressed makes Passover even more meaningful.
    — Ethel G. Hofman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In my childhood home in Iowa, there was a strong belief that the core of Judaism lay in empathy with the suffering of the oppressed and the enslaved.
    — Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Fela Kútì used this genre not only to innovate musically, but to challenge authority and give voice to the oppressed.
    — Goodluck Ajeh, Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2025
  • As Christians, we are mandated to defend ourselves against evil, to stand with the oppressed against the same, and to stand with the children of Israel at all times.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Many rebellions against China’s official rulers came from millenarian groups and religious cults that sprang up among the oppressed.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Israel has brought shame on Jews like myself who were brought up learning our most common bond as Jews was standing up for the oppressed, not for being the oppressors.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • From time immemorial bad men have attempted and will continue to usurp the will of the people; the cycle of the oppressed becoming oppressor is catholic.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Sen regularly takes up against issues that bother her and is an outspoken voice for the oppressed in India against political regimes, no matter what their hue.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Scripture consistently affirms God’s justice, mercy, and defense of the oppressed.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The crucified and risen Christ reveals a God who stands with the oppressed, not one who is used to shield the powerful from criticism or accountability.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Oli, a Communist who began his political career as a tribune of the oppressed, seemed unaware of the anger that had accumulated around him.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Her songs often came from a place of interior anguish, but whenever her words rose in volume or pitch, her voice quite literally seemed to be standing up for the vulnerable and the oppressed.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 July 2023

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