SUPPRESS in a Sentence
Learn SUPPRESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
117 example sentences for SUPPRESS, such as:
1. Dolly could scarcely suppress a smile.
2. The new government quickly suppressed the rebellion.
3. Her son saw that she could not suppress a smile of delight.
4. It was revealed that important evidence had been suppressed.
5. What they suppress is far more important than what they report.
2. The new government quickly suppressed the rebellion.
3. Her son saw that she could not suppress a smile of delight.
4. It was revealed that important evidence had been suppressed.
5. What they suppress is far more important than what they report.
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Meanings and Examples of SUPPRESS
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suppress
v. put out of one's consciousness
v. reduce the incidence or severity of or stop
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1 He turned back to the girls, who were trying to suppress their smiles.
2 The contrast was too grotesque: she could scarcely suppress the smile it provoked.
3 He had made a fortune in business, and spent nearly all of it in building up a magazine, which the post office department had tried to suppress, and had driven to Canada.
4 Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness.
5 "Something like this I had heard before," said Cora, observing that he paused to suppress those passions which began to burn with too bright a flame, as he recalled the recollection of his supposed injuries.
6 The young man at his elbow shuddered, but seemed to suppress his feelings in tenderness to his companion.
7 They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
8 I deeply regret the necessity that impels me to suppress any thing of importance connected with my experience in slavery.
9 I was smoking, and trying to suppress a rising tendency to shudder.
10 Dolly could scarcely suppress a smile.
11 "Yes, yes," she said, evidently trying to suppress her jealous thoughts.
12 Her son saw that she could not suppress a smile of delight.
13 Darya Alexandrovna could not suppress a good-humored smile as she recognized him.
14 But here he was interrupted by his fair physician, a smile which she could scarce suppress dimpling for an instant a face, whose general expression was that of contemplative melancholy.
15 We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those, which, at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 Our enemy has made us human and civilized by forcing us to suppress our narcissistic urges and desires for the good of all.
2 It is probable that the medication will suppress the symptom without treating the condition.
3 He tried to suppress a smile but felt the corner of his mouth twitch.
4 He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
5 He continued to suppress the people and serve the imperialists.
6 But guess why they stay home and suppress what they call ethnic unrest?
7 What they suppress is far more important than what they report.
8 The boy could not suppress a snicker when the teacher sat on the tack.
9 In 1976 the suppression of an uprising in Soweto, a black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, ushered in sanctions and boycotts, crimping South Africa's economy.
10 Two decades after the genocide, Rwandans are enjoying longer and wealthier lives, yet extreme poverty persists and activists complain of political suppression.
11 Eye problems can indicate an unhealthy lifestyle with subsequent suppression of the immune system.
12 It was revealed that important evidence had been suppressed.
13 The reproduction and growth of the cancerous cells can be suppressed by bombarding them with radiation.
14 The Professor said that deep sleep allowed suppressed anxieties to surface.
15 The new government quickly suppressed the rebellion.