Example Sentences

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“As I started to get older and act, I realized I was suppressing that desire to make stuff as well,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

"I was suppressing who I was as a person," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

I think I was always just working so hard to fit into this mold that I really wasn't listening to what was going on inside, or in a way I was suppressing it.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

“I was suppressing my own freedoms because I was worried that I would be giving away something, and that someone would see through the guise,” he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2022

“Oh, nothing,” he said, but he was suppressing a small smile in that way that makes you say: “What?”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson