Oppress can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| oppress - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" | ||
| oppress - cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | verb | Hooray! We have another dreamy, starry-eyed idealist to disenfranchise and oppress! | |
| 2. | verb | Once social change begins it can not be reversed. You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read. You can not humiliate the person who feels pride. You can not oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. | |
| 3. | verb | The law won't let anyone oppress people. | |
| 4. | verb | They oppress linguistic minorities, because they see minority languages as a threat. | |
| 5. | verb | You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. | |
| 6. | verb | Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt. That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years, that shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharaoh's hands, and be reserved in the cities. And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity. | |
| 7. | verb | For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. | |
| 8. | verb | In the meantime there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land. | |
| 9. | verb | Algerians engage in the army only to oppress "other Algerians". | |
| 10. | verb | Does Islam oppress women? | |
| 11. | verb | It's clear that Islam doesn't oppress women. | |
| 12. | verb | Islam doesn't give men the right to oppress women. | |
| 13. | verb | These three oaths, what are they? One, that Israel shall not go up as a wall. One, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon Israel that they shall not rebel against the nations of the world. And one, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon the idolaters that they shall not oppress Israel too much. | |
| 14. | verb | These three oaths, what are they? One, that Israel shall not return to the land en masse. Another, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon Israel that they shall not rebel against the nations of the world. And finally, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon the nations of the world that they shall not oppress Israel too much. | |
| 15. | verb | Islam doesn't oppress women. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Hooray! We have another dreamy, starry-eyed idealist to disenfranchise and oppress! | |
| Once social change begins it can not be reversed. You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read. You can not humiliate the person who feels pride. You can not oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. | |
| The law won't let anyone oppress people. | |
| They oppress linguistic minorities, because they see minority languages as a threat. | |
| You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. | |
| Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt. That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years, that shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharaoh's hands, and be reserved in the cities. And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity. | |
| For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. | |
| In the meantime there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land. | |
| Algerians engage in the army only to oppress "other Algerians". | |
| Does Islam oppress women? | |
| It's clear that Islam doesn't oppress women. | |
| Islam doesn't give men the right to oppress women. | |
| These three oaths, what are they? One, that Israel shall not go up as a wall. One, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon Israel that they shall not rebel against the nations of the world. And one, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon the idolaters that they shall not oppress Israel too much. | |
| These three oaths, what are they? One, that Israel shall not return to the land en masse. Another, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon Israel that they shall not rebel against the nations of the world. And finally, the Holy One, Blessed be He, adjured upon the nations of the world that they shall not oppress Israel too much. | |
| Islam doesn't oppress women. | |