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Example sentences for: oppression

How can you use “oppression” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Amsterdammers fight for everyone’s rights against oppression, or the right of David to stand against the faceless Goliath of bureaucracy.
Here on the second floor Boston’s great orators raised their voices against British tyranny, against slavery, and female oppression.
Liberty is born in the state’s assertion of responsibility to oversee and prevent relationships of oppression.
To Arendt, the elimination of the public-private distinction is what distinguishes 20 th century totalitarianism from earlier and lesser forms of oppression.
A plaque marks the triangular green as the “Birthplace of American liberty” and a burial monument honors “The first victims to the sword of British tyranny and oppression.”