Sentence examples for was repressing from inspiring English sources

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was repressing

verb

To press again.

  • To repress a vinyl record

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He dismissed concerns that he was repressing journalists.

The variety was growing so well, he explained, that it was repressing others.

But in this salvage operation, it leaves its post, and the genes it was repressing are liable to come back into action, causing mayhem.

Many cannot help wondering if the disease has peeled back inhibitions to expose an ugly side that the patient was repressing all along.

He was repressing what had happened, "telling myself, 'Don't think of that, don't think of that.' Swallowing my thoughts and feelings".

Britain lent Indonesia more than £630m to pay for British arms provided to General Suharto at a time when he was repressing protests.

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Even religion was repressed".

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was repressed.

The religion was repressed in the Soviet Union.

When Carrie was repressed, bullied and humiliated, people suffered.

The whole question of sexuality was repressed and denied".

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