- repress
- 01. As a child, she always had to [repress] her anger because her parents wouldn't allow her to argue with them.02. If you always [repress] your feelings, you could end up with high blood pressure or something.03. His long [repressed] aggression finally exploded in a fit of rage.04. Because he was sexually [repressed], he had difficulty with his love relationships.05. Catholic priests must learn to [repress] their sexual urges because they have to take a vow of celibacy.06. Oil companies have a long history of collaborating with [repressive] governments to extract valuable resources, with little concern for the people who live near them.07. Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was murdered for preaching against the violent [repression] of his countrymen.08. After years of political unrest, and [repression] of the black majority, the new government has succeeded in establishing a certain stability in South Africa.09. Nelson Mandela was able to recreate his country after decades of [repression] of its people under apartheid.10. Sigmund Freud believed that [repression] of the sense of smell was a major cause of mental illness.11. In most societies, there are powerful attempts to control and sometimes [repress] minorities.12. Studies show that riots emerge mainly in those cities where disorderly tactics can work - where riots stand a chance of getting results other than all-out [repression].13. According to the Marxist perspective, it is the family that is most responsible for the [repression] of women.14. In the seventeenth century, Holland rebelled against the [repressive] Catholic domination of Philip II of Spain.15. She learned to [repress] her sexual desires because her parents taught her they were immoral and sinful.16. Political opposition was not permitted in Chile during the [repressive] regime of Augusto Pinochet.17. After being [repressively] ruled throughout its history, the country finally elected its first democratic government in the early 1990s.18. The rights of ethnic minorities are [repressed] by the majority in many of the world's nations.19. Many doctors now believe that [repressing] negative emotions such as anger can cause diseases like cancer and heart disease.20. [Repressed] feelings such as anger or fear are sometimes let out as crying or laughing.21. South Africa's [repressive] racial policies finally came to an end with the election of Nelson Mandela as President.22. During the whole of the 1950s, Nelson Mandela was the victim of various forms of [repression], including being banned, arrested and imprisoned.23. Some people suggest that the Japanese and the British are quite similar in that people in both cultures are seen as having somewhat [repressed] characters.24. W. E. B. DuBois once said that the cost of liberty is less than the price of [repression].25. John Lindsay once suggested that there are some politicians who believe that the people of America are ready to support [repression] as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.26. Simone Weil once stated that there is only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, [repressive] justice.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.