Example sentences for: suppressing

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

  • This is what Fiss means by the "irony" in his title: that true freedom of speech for all requires suppressing the speech of some.

  • In this vein, I would also point you to Claude Steele's most illuminating essay in the Atlantic just recently about the role of racial stereotyping--by white professors of black students--in suppressing academic performance among even superlative black performers.

  • The number in row d and column c of the drug activity matrix A was the activity of drug d in suppressing the growth of cell line c, or, equivalently, the sensitivity of cell line c to drug d.

  • 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 .)

  • Based in the Auvergnat spa town of Vichy, the French government often proved more zealous than its masters in suppressing civil liberties and drawing up anti-Jewish legislation.


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