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Example sentences for: oppressive

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Requiring a mother to carry a child to term arguably amounts to an oppressive form of involuntary servitude.
Escalating doses of sedatives followed by oppressive hemodynamic and ventilatory side-effects sometimes provide an indication for therapeutic musculoskeletal paralysis to rapidly get control of life threatening agitation syndromes.
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.
Underneath it all is her rock-solid, oppressive devotion to her son.
Its flow is constant — never suffocated by the all-pervading sand or evaporated by the oppressive heat of the sun.