Example Sentences

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Suddenly despair seized Courtnay, and he gave the rein to the fury which he had been repressing with such difficulty.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar

All I had been repressing, fighting, resisting for days past, had in a moment yielded to horror, and hurt that seemed past healing, and I was surrendering to what I should know was impossible.

From People Like That by Bosher, Kate Langley

Oh, what can I do?” said she, putting her arms around her sister and the hot tears she had been repressing flowed fast.

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.