Suppressing

"Suppressing" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Suppressing one's anger is a virtue.

Suppressing one's romantic feelings is not the same as having no such feelings.

Sami was suppressing his feelings.

As a result, some countries that have tight pandemic restrictions in place are planning to abandon them for a few days at least, including “whack-a-mole” strategies aimed at suppressing local outbreaks of contagion.

Why are they suppressing this story?

Suppressing tears can have negative effects on mental and physical well-being, regardless of gender.

One mechanism involves disarming a biological process known as autophagy. Under normal circumstances, autophagy allows cells to sweep away debris, including viruses; but, by suppressing this function, HIV is able to keep on infecting white blood cells, eventually leading to a breakdown of the protective immune system.

Hair samples offer a simple but accurate test as to whether anti-retrovirals are suppressing the virus.

The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

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