oppressed

How To Use oppressed In A Sentence

• The magazine gave voice to hundreds of oppressed factory workers.
• While I marvel at this book's heaviness and complexity, I too am a product of the disillusion climate, and I can't pipe down when I feel I'm being oppressed.
• But it is not so clear that this weakening of states increases the possibility of the political independence or autonomy of oppressed nations within them, because the bourgeoisies of the weakened nation-states in question fight back.
• When encountering headachy thing to generate undesirable sentiment, not oppressed in the heart, and should think way its sparse release comes out.
• I am oppressed by a nameless and mysterious suffering, .. my brain is darkened, -- my thoughts but half-formed and never wholly uttered, and I, -- I who once deemed human intelligence and reason all-supreme, all-clear, all-absolute, am now compelled to use that reason reasonlessly, and to work with that intelligence in helpless ignorance as to what end my mental toil shall serve! Ardath
• Darren leaned closer to shout above the music, `They dinna look oppressed to me. AN OLDER WOMAN
• I was so proud that Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea spent time and money to go Wyoming to condole with all these oppressed people and to reassure them that help is soon on the way. Obama Wins Wyoming, Networks Say
• Continued Rumsfeld: "These oppressed Iraqi oil wells deserve the right to pump oil as freely as any other oil well on God's Earth-be it in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, or an Alaskan wildlife refuge.
• Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. Little Dorrit
• In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.