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

Film critic Robin Wood famously argued that "the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses."

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2023

But on the earth, the solid crust forcibly represses the steam gathering beneath until it has accumulated strength for an explosion, while there is no such restraining power that we know of in the sun.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)