Sentence example with the word 'oppression'

oppression

abuse, burden, cumber, discouragement, encumbrance, heavy hand, lading, overweighting, self-destructive urge, taxing, weight

Definition n. the act of subjugating by cruelty

Last update: February 15, 2017


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A tyrant's oppression of his people.   [Please select]

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The oppression of women is rooted in class society.   [adverb]

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It remains our duty to do all we can to resolve conflict, confront oppression, reduce poverty and promote good governance.   [noun]

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The sun poured down his parting glory on the scene, without the oppression of those fierce rays that belong to the climate and the season.   [noun]

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Centuries of oppression have stamped out the plain light of truth in those who are not allowed it.   [noun]

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The other class of counsellors were such gentlemen of small fortune, and substantial farmers, as a sense of intolerable oppression had induced to take arms and join the insurgents.   [noun]

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As Deep calls unto Deep, one bad passion awakened another the fiend of avarice invoked that of pride, and pride was to be supported by cruelty and oppression.   [noun]

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These men had been the principal sufferers during the oppression of the time.   [noun]

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"It is most infamous and intolerable oppression."   [noun]

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