oppressively

How To Use oppressively In A Sentence

• Back in the supermarket, the most oppressively conformist aisle is that in which wine is sold.
• His speeches conveyed an oppressively apocalyptic vision.
• A heavy weight of dusty grey cloud lay oppressively inert, vaguely resting on the house and tree tops, and underneath the cloud the air seemed stagnantly confined; in its lowest strata people had been breathing it all day -- all the week, in fact -- in and out of their lungs, so that it was no wonder it felt tired and second-hand and used up. Impressions of a War Correspondent
• The severe thunderstorms that tore through the Washington metro area on Sunday afternoon were fueled by a combination of historically hot and oppressively humid weather, and ignited by a cold front sliding east-southeastward. An inside view of Sunday's severe weather
• Around South Armagh, a predominantly republican area, the police state manifested itself most oppressively in Crossmaglen's RUC station and barracks, the infamous 'Borucki Sangar' a sangar is a temporary fortification, which loomed, stark and medieval, in the middle of a row of shops and pubs on the main square, its watchtower all-seeing. Castles of Ulster
• The atmosphere at the school was oppressively puritanical.
• In this dark movie, the sun never shines on French Canada - all the events take place under oppressively leaden skies.
• Having been on rat packs since arriving, the smell of sizzling sausages had me wishing for a sausage sanger and a cold beer on the oppressively hot and humid Saturday afternoon.
• We've vowed to help these unfortunate million- and billionaires lose their confusion, pain and gelt… er, guilt, despite their oppressively large bank accounts.
• Exclamations of joy coalesced into one voice, whose laughter tinkled oppressively through the clear, mountain air.