Sentence examples for are oppressing from inspiring English sources
verb
Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
It happens when leaders are inspired to do the right thing and protect the oppressed, not those who are oppressing.
"They are oppressing us".
They are oppressing us and depressing us".
It's like they are oppressing my young life".
Meanwhile, half a world away, the fledgling feminists of Afghanistan grumble that the brutes with guns are oppressing them.
So I wrote this song called Paracetamol – without really noticing it at first – from the perspective of this ambiguous authoritative figure, talking about somebody they are oppressing, in a sort of disconnected tabloid speak.
Muslims in Ethiopia are oppressed.
Husbands, you see, are oppressed; wives are demanding.
She explains in one letter why women are oppressed.
They imply that only those who are oppressed or marginalized in our own time were capable of being oppressed two centuries ago.
