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Example sentences for: oppressive

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The park can be a little oppressive — it’s always a flurry of people and pigeons — but at least pause long enough to admire the panoramic views across San Juan harbor.
In 1996, though, Dole has called the IRS an "intrusive, oppressive presence in American life," and has pledged to cut its staff of investigators.
I first saw it when I was 14 and thought it was one of the worst pictures ever--garish, oppressive, and appallingly overacted.
The broader goals of the Cold War required the United States to make common cause with oppressive governments.
. But the kind of oppressive government, run by meddling elitists, that Bob Dole tried to tell us about in San Diego exists only in the conservative imagination.