Example sentences for: suppressing

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

  • The paper doesn't say it, but it's worth noting that if McCain is right that gaydar is pretty much universal, and suppressing awareness of gays in a unit so as to maintain cohesion is the point of "Don't Ask Don't Tell,"--a doctrine McCain supports--then well, the doctrine has no point, since everybody already knows and hence unit cohesion is already threatened.

  • And it is not fair to criticize Janet Maslin for praising Lethal Weapon 4 while suppressing the information that I, for example, disliked it, because that would not help his case--just as the information that Maslin disliked many of the other films he mentions would also not serve his thesis.

  • McGrath earns extra plaudits for suppressing his usual fondness for the fantastic: Asylum "is closer to Hardy than Poe," says Phil Baker in the London Times . (See the Random House site for excerpts from Asylum .)

  • Other spokesmen for creationism accuse evolutionist "censors and book-burners" of suppressing "evidence for creation science."

  • Communism was a large smothering blanket thrown across societies and suppressing primordial identities.


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