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Example sentences for: oppressive

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

The hotel is a hothouse maze: The tacky décor is oppressive, the images shot a little too close, the camera angles skewed to induce vertigo.
How about “oppressive tendency” or even tyranny once again?
. 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.
Underneath it all is her rock-solid, oppressive devotion to her son.
His wife, Judy, and her father, Howard, are members of the intelligentsia in an unnamed country in the near future, and the story--told by the three characters seated at a table in direct address to the camera--involves the gradual destruction of their lives by an oppressive regime, and the moral disintegration of Jack, the eponymous survivor.