On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Oppressively. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Oppressively meaning
In an oppressive manner.
Using Oppressively
- The main meaning on this page is: In an oppressive manner.
- In the example corpus, oppressively often appears in combinations such as: oppressively hot, the oppressively, an oppressively.
Context around Oppressively
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oppressively
- In this selection, "oppressively" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, plain, generally, hot, eerie and grimey stand out and add context to how "oppressively" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are still oppressively hot and break the oppressively humid air. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oppressively" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oppressively
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
June and July are oppressively hot. (6 words)
There is no air conditioning to break the oppressively humid air. (11 words)
Sugar plantations were notorious for heavy and dangerous work in oppressively hot weather. (13 words)
For example, the First and Second Estates proceeded into the assembly wearing their finest garments, while the Third Estate was required to wear plain, oppressively somber black, an act of alienation that Louis would likely have not condoned. (38 words)
The fall temperatures are a cool blessing and the fall colors are heartbreakingly beautiful as we consider the so-called “migrant caravan” making its way down a dusty highway where conditions are still oppressively hot. (35 words)
In Chris Menges’s gorgeously smoky shots of blasted earth and gnashing machinery, spraying explosions and blackened pits, we see an oppressively alien landscape that’s hostile to man and woman alike. (32 words)
Example sentences (15)
But I have been at the beach on several occasions when there was no air movement and the sun was oppressively hot.
Like a bad dream, it's strange, abstract, and sometimes nonsensical, but oppressively eerie in a way that leaves you begging to wake up.
One oppressively hot summer’s day, the window in the office of Mr Meakes, the firm's proprietor, became jammed.
Credit to the production design team though, the oppressively grimey set and costume design keep the film from feeling too much like it belongs on the SyFy channel.
If you add some sugar and some thickeners, it’s not oppressively bean-y.
In Chris Menges’s gorgeously smoky shots of blasted earth and gnashing machinery, spraying explosions and blackened pits, we see an oppressively alien landscape that’s hostile to man and woman alike.
It is in these new rules, and old fractures, constant movements and subtle mutations, of being black in an oppressively white world, where the work of the late David Koloane resides.
From his personal and intimately-scaled debut to his most recent misfire of oppressively shouted cinema It’s Only the End of the World, Dolan has never struggled to express himself.
Local officials should understand that local control is not a blank check, nor is it an excuse for tyrannical policies, like oppressively high property taxes and involuntary annexation.
Sugar plantations were notorious for heavy and dangerous work in oppressively hot weather.
The fall temperatures are a cool blessing and the fall colors are heartbreakingly beautiful as we consider the so-called “migrant caravan” making its way down a dusty highway where conditions are still oppressively hot.
There is no air conditioning to break the oppressively humid air.
For example, the First and Second Estates proceeded into the assembly wearing their finest garments, while the Third Estate was required to wear plain, oppressively somber black, an act of alienation that Louis would likely have not condoned.
June and July are oppressively hot.
Lowland Hispaniola is generally oppressively hot and humid, with temperatures averaging convert with high humidity during the daytime and around convert at night.
Common combinations with oppressively
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- oppressively hot 6×
- the oppressively 2×
- an oppressively 2×