Example Sentences

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Certain details of the scene are so grim she represses them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

An excitatory signal encourages communication between brain cells, whereas an inhibitory signal represses it, like the gas and brake pedals in a car.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

The landlocked country borders China, which human rights groups say represses religious freedom.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2023

It is a totalizing system that represses human agency and offers no escape: We are “like butterflies, pinned live and wriggling onto history’s collage.”

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Pusillanimity is not to be confused, therefore, with humility; for humility excludes the unreasonable or immoderate desire of excellence, whereas pusillanimity represses even that desire of greatness which is reasonable and moderate.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome