Example Sentences

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You want that without always having to stand your ground, which gets exhausting quickly and leads to self-suppression.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2023

But in our society of self-suppression, nothing is more subject to instant judgment than clothing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019

But Rice has an authentic center, knows that if she ran for office “every compromise and stifling and self-suppression to be performed would … devour her with shame.”

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Shame is our hidden essence; the ugliest part of a thing is its truest part; being decent or kind or liberal is a sign of self-suppression or weakness; cynicism is knowledge.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2017

Happily her gentle self-suppression awoke a nobler spirit in her husband, and enabled him to play a worthier part in England’s history.

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)