On this page you'll find 20 example sentences with Oppression. You'll also see the meaning, synonyms such as persecution or depression and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Oppression in a sentence
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Oppression meaning
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.
Synonyms of Oppression
Example sentences (20)
So no amount of banning, oppression and frightening people is going to stop the truth from coming out,” said Rahul.
This is a silent documentary about the oppression of women whose heart cannot bear to hear the story of one of them.
If we stand by and keep quiet, we will be complicit in the continuing oppression of the Palestinians,” Makgoba added.
Here are some open-world games to play as a rebel and get to experience the flaming desire for the end of oppression.
And as in the times of slavery, farm and incarcerated workers have used gardening as a way to resist their oppression.
He said that March 23 is not merely a day but a symbol of battle against any type of injustice, tyranny and oppression.
If we are able to do so, it is because we lack native fluency with Black Americans’ experiences of oppression.
For over two millennia, we Jews have suffered a long and woeful history of oppression, expulsion, and murder.
It’s a refined but radical image of a post-menopausal woman confronting oppression and embracing pleasure.
The five officers involved were charged with second-degree murder, kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression.
But she explained that “Israel occupied Lebanon and Hezbollah came out of the occupation and oppression”.
But the new ruling clarifies that the oppression of Afghan women is so severe that it amounts to persecution in and of itself.
Education must be controlled, to teach at the earliest age the categories of victimhood and oppression.
CRT’s reduction of everything to “race” parallels the Marxist reduction of history to class oppression.
Hence violence between Hellenist Jews and Maccabees, in the face of oppression by the Assyrian Greeks.
USI Vice President Zaid Al-Barghouthi, who himself is Palestinian, said the government must intervene to stop Israeli oppression.
Disdaining oppression is not entrepreneurship but the expression of one’s consciousness against evil.
When people believe (accurately or otherwise) that they are the victims of oppression, then democracy’s ideals don’t hold as well.
Those who support the violent oppression of Palestinians blame the violence on those who oppose it.
The history of the Jewish people is one of glory, oppression, migration, persecution and survival.
Common combinations with oppression
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of oppression 41×
- oppression and 36×
- and oppression 31×
- oppression of 30×
- the oppression 25×
- oppression in 8×
- oppression by 6×
- from oppression 5×
- racial oppression 5×
- oppression that 4×
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