Use of oppressive in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include oppressive at the start of sentence, oppressive at the end of sentence and oppressive in the middle of sentence

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oppressive at the end of sentence


  1. Summers in Houston can be oppressive.
  2. The heat in the tropics can be oppressive.
  3. It was even dimmer here, and more oppressive.
  4. The silence in the meeting was becoming oppressive.
  5. The silence between them started to grow oppressive.
  6. The political situation has grown increasingly oppressive.
  7. An excess of house plants in a small flat can be oppressive.
  8. Around them the darkness was absolute, the silence oppressive.
  9. In the eastern Pyrenees the high summer temperature can be oppressive.
  10. A pair of collared doves were moaning in the trees overhead; the day was absolutely still - sunless and oppressive.

oppressive in the middle of sentence


  1. Another oppressive night descended.
  2. The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out.
  3. We were unable to sleep because of the oppressive heat.
  4. The oppressive heat and humidity make that smell stronger.
  5. The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.
  6. The country is in the grip of an extremely oppressive regime.
  7. My desire to be rich was an insane, unwholesome, oppressive desire.
  8. They have worked in sleet, in downpours, in oppressive Washington heat.
  9. The citizens of Kwangju rose in rebellion against the oppressive regime.
  10. They had all the evidence that a less oppressive environment was not effective.
  11. The people are still struggling for liberation from a brutal, oppressive regime.
  12. This country still had a deeply oppressive, unequal and divisive political system.
  13. The Royal Commission rejected that solution as too oppressive, smacking of government censorship.
  14. The day was unusually hot for late April and a still, almost oppressive air hung over the forest.
  15. Paige, released from her duties, stepped out of the house into the oppressive humidity of a looming tropical storm.
  16. That night John escaped from the oppressive gloom of Sloane Crescent and embarked on an evening-long drinking spree.
  17. The public has reacted in this way because they felt a great relief at the overthrow of an oppressive and unpopular regime.
  18. Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws, if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair.
  19. Indeed, the struggle for a more just society has historically entailed constant protest and demonstration to change oppressive laws.
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