REPRESSION in a Sentence

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82 example sentences for REPRESSION, such as:

1. She repressed her desire to mention his name.
2. There was no repression in her glance or gesture.
3. He repressed his natural sexual desires as sinful.
4. The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
5. Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPRESSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
repression
 n.  a state of forcible subjugation
 n.  (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  The brown cube of a house stirred and awakened; it seemed to be in motion; it welcomed her back from shopping; it lost its mildewed repression.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  You have a perfectly well-developed case of repression of sex instinct, and it raises the old Ned with your body.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  There was no repression in her glance or gesture.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
5  Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
6  As repression has the army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not count its shots.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
7  This repression was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS
8  But the facing of so vast a prejudice could not but bring the inevitable self-questioning, self-disparagement, and lowering of ideals which ever accompany repression and breed in an atmosphere of contempt and hate.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
9  Mary was sitting on her stool nearby and she suddenly made a very queer sound which she tried so violently to repress that she ended by almost choking.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  As for my disposition, that is, perhaps, somewhat too hasty; but I have striven to repress it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
11  Alas," cried Monte Cristo, striving to repress his emotion, "if Lord Wilmore was your unknown benefactor, I fear you will never see him again.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
12  Danglars, seeing his daughter smiling, and proud even to insolence, could not entirely repress his brutal feelings, but they betrayed themselves only by an exclamation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
13  On recognizing her step-mother, Valentine could not repress a shudder, which caused a vibration in the bed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 101. Locusta.
14  Then, as if reproaching himself for the longing that he could not repress, he went and kissed the two tousled heads upon the pillow, took down his seldom-used meerschaum, and opened his Plato.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
15  In listening, I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress what I endured no longer; I was obliged to yield, and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
2  History shows that the usual response to violent protest is repression.
3  He could not repress an ejaculation of surprise when he heard the news.
4  In order to curb her impetuosity, Anne's parents tried not to repress her high spirits.
5  It is anger that is repressed that leads to violence and loss of control.
6  She repressed her desire to mention his name.
7  He repressed his natural sexual desires as sinful.
8  Amy's ebullient nature could not be repressed; she' was always bubbling over with excitement.
9  We now know that repressing anger is a contributory factor in many physical illnesses.
10  Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctrinaire hard liners crushed his dreams of democracy.