Explore Oppressing through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Oppressing meaning
oppressive
Using Oppressing
- The main meaning on this page is: oppressive
- In the example corpus, oppressing often appears in combinations such as: oppressing the, are oppressing, oppressing women.
Context around Oppressing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oppressing
- In this selection, "oppressing" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, men, stop, typical, women, marginalized and nigger stand out and add context to how "oppressing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against those oppressing them and agents are oppressing the local. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oppressing" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oppressing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We oppose the big bullying the small or the rich oppressing the poor. (13 words)
Reid Hoffman was paying her expenses, because apparently he doesn’t like men oppressing women. (15 words)
Now, Texas, like everywhere else in the United States, only cares how much you like oppressing marginalized groups. (18 words)
These sons are endowed, to various degrees, with the essence of the Supreme Trinity Entity Vishnu ; Vishnu had opted to be born into mortality to combat the demon Ravana, who was oppressing the gods, and who could only be destroyed by a mortal. (43 words)
The state is fighting the move that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton says is “oppressing” the border county of about 840,000 people, but local officials won a brief reprieve Wednesday when the Texas Supreme Court refused to make an expedited ruling. (42 words)
No, because, you see, when secularists stop me from installing a poster of the 10 commandments outside my office or want to teach evolution to my kids or don’t want to say “merry Christmas”, they are oppressing my religious freedom. (41 words)
How can power be fragmented to prevent any faction from dominating or oppressing a rival to sanctify liberty and the march of the mind? (24 words)
If he, as a multimillionaire author with one of the largest platforms on thewants to claim that a few million stunning, beautiful, inimitably gorgeous women are oppressing him, then fucking who cares—let him! (34 words)
Example sentences (19)
Reid Hoffman was paying her expenses, because apparently he doesn’t like men oppressing women.
Their aim is to give both the army and these vigilantes a freer hand in oppressing the occupied West Bank, with the hope of pressuring more Palestinians to leave.
How can power be fragmented to prevent any faction from dominating or oppressing a rival to sanctify liberty and the march of the mind?
If he, as a multimillionaire author with one of the largest platforms on thewants to claim that a few million stunning, beautiful, inimitably gorgeous women are oppressing him, then fucking who cares—let him!
Now, Texas, like everywhere else in the United States, only cares how much you like oppressing marginalized groups.
The state is fighting the move that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton says is “oppressing” the border county of about 840,000 people, but local officials won a brief reprieve Wednesday when the Texas Supreme Court refused to make an expedited ruling.
Change course and embrace peace for a change, and then, maybe, just maybe, you can learn some wisdom and stop oppressing the supposedly free Eritreans.
He’s your typical oppressing nigger, the kind the blames others for their own oppression on his own people.
If James was so worried about uninformed individuals making harmful statements, he should have thought harder before essentially defending a country that is systematically oppressing a minority population.
People in power are still oppressing the masses, so I don’t think the masses have independence, looking at the situation of the country, especially in the North.
Urging women to cover their bodies should not be mistaken to oppressing their feminism but rather to elevate and sanctify it.
We oppose the big bullying the small or the rich oppressing the poor.
It will be a revenge drama that traces the fight of an oppressed community against those oppressing them.
Nääs pointed out that the awareness of broad-based surveillance and wiretaps has an influence on the population as a whole, infringing on personal freedoms, oppressing people, and at the end of the day having a damaging effect on society.
No, because, you see, when secularists stop me from installing a poster of the 10 commandments outside my office or want to teach evolution to my kids or don’t want to say “merry Christmas”, they are oppressing my religious freedom.
Disputes are less common as the food source increases as the motive appears to be getting sufficient food rather than oppressing other devils.
He visits his family estate and discovers that his father's agents are oppressing the local peasantry and probably cheating his father as well.
Islam teaches that the purpose of Man's entire creation is to worship the Creator of the Heavens and Earth (Allah) alone that includes being kind to other human beings and life including bugs, and to trees, by not oppressing them.
These sons are endowed, to various degrees, with the essence of the Supreme Trinity Entity Vishnu ; Vishnu had opted to be born into mortality to combat the demon Ravana, who was oppressing the gods, and who could only be destroyed by a mortal.
Common combinations with oppressing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: