Example sentences for: regressive

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

  • Scalia as regressive; balls as metaphor; Clarence Thomas as ventriloquist's dummy.

  • (The national sales tax, another GOP favorite, is an equally regressive scheme, and totally unenforceable.)

  • His grim message about a regressive human impulse to act childlike seemed to undermine his simultaneous call for resistance--especially since he emphasized that any struggle by the victims of the Nazis was pointless without outside help.

  • He predicts that “brain differences in kids with a regressive form of autism will be different than those of kids with the more congenital type of autism.”

  • The conditions they toil under make a mockery of the already low American labor standards—the most regressive among the advanced industrial nations.


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