Example sentences for: oppressors

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

  • It commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second century B.C. against their Syrian oppressors, and their refusal to assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture.

  • This was the catalyst for the oppressed Maya to take up arms against their colonial oppressors.

  • In Czechoslovakia and Poland, some of those who had suffered under Nazi rule turned violently against their oppressors--or their oppressors' countrymen--and hundreds, even thousands, may have been killed.

  • In desperation, Poland looked to Napoleon Bonaparte and Revolutionary France for assistance against its oppressors.

  • Specifically, they concocted the idea of a mass murder of their German oppressors.


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