Repress

//ɹəˈpɹɛs//

"Repress" in a Sentence (10 examples)

We repress the fact that we eat animals rather than barcoded containers from the supermarket.

I could not repress a keen thrill of sympathy for the child, whoever it was, whose only Christmas was to watch, in cold and storm, the rich banquet ungratefully enjoyed by the lonely bachelor.

Don't repress your emotions.

The report also discusses actions by governments and other groups to repress the news media.

to repress rebellion or sedition

to repress the first risings of discontent

Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,

to repress a vinyl record

It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.

Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles.

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