Example sentences for: oppressors

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

  • We are under pressure to conform to our oppressors' wishes about how we should behave, how we should govern our lands, how we should think even."

  • Though Crete had to endure nearly a century more of subjection to Turkish domination it stirred the blood of many native sons who vowed to rid the island of its oppressors.

  • Even when Realpolitik led the United States to side with dictators and oppressors, it was in the service of maximizing democracy and human rights in the world at large--a goal we in fact achieved.

  • 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.

  • They don't believe communism's defeat ended America's global obligations: The United States should still strike boldly against authoritarian oppressors.


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