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How to use oppressive in a sentence

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Sometimes, perhaps, the vastness of sky was oppressive in the way wilderness weighed on McGregor's Canadians.
Not that the oppressive, undemocratic, abusive and illegal proposals are to be binned.
The heat is oppressive, and you realize it the moment you step through the watertight door onto the weather deck of any ship in the gulf.
He maintains he's a serious campaigner for free speech, which he says is curtailed by oppressive local by-laws.
Baldric wondered at this, for it seemed to him that the oppressive will that seemed to clench the north country had been suddenly banished.
Freak hailstorms will victimize the prairies while oppressive heat waves cook southern Ontario.
When Hetty gets the good news, she packs a rucksack full of books and heads for Wordsworth country to escape the oppressive atmosphere at home.
I think both Michael and I were pretty crushed by the oppressive response that the ideas canvassed in the Discussion paper received.
The argument was that the scheme is so oppressive and onerous because it infringes the Applicant's right to work and to respect for his privacy.
One gruesome scene is shot behind an oppressive red filter, visually suffocating the viewer.
The southern swamplands have the lowest rainfall but are humid and oppressive all year.
One week was spent trudging through snow and ice, the other trying to cope with supernaturally oppressive heat and humidity.
The course was as usual in superb condition but the oppressive heat drained the strength of the competitors and the scores reflected this.
The package has had to contend with sandstorms, muddy conditions and oppressive heat.
Some people love hot weather, but I find it oppressive and stifling and generally unpleasant.
Their grievances were oppressive and unfair taxation, heavy-handedness of the authorities, and lack of political representation.
Whatever oppressive tactics the authorities use, we should not let them stop us protesting and expressing our anger about their atrocities.
People take their future into their own hands and rebel against an oppressive authority.
I hated the unjust, oppressive system so, in my twenties, I fled the country illegally to seek truth and freedom in the West.
Common symptoms are pain, an oppressive feeling behind the eye, a gritty sensation in the eye, double vision, and photophobia.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These were great demands, and were regarded as extortionate and oppressive.
That he should detest the corrupt and oppressive forms of religion of his own century was neither surprising nor blamable.
The weather was oppressive and he had talked too much to the young men at the brasserie.
Every minute the room grew darker and chillier, every minute the silence grew more and more oppressive.
The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.
When the air is near the saturation point, the weather is oppressive and is said to be very humid.
The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive.
Spirits that entwine one's heartstrings with tender touch, yet are heavier fetters, more oppressive than leaden weights.
They form an agreeable contrast to the chaos of oppressive learning of the time, and have an insinuative air about them.
A generally dark and heavy tone of colouring is very oppressive in a sudatory chamber.
The tax-exempt organizations have a vested interest in the oppressive, inequitable, and wasteful federal-income-tax system.
The Alpine caravansary was hardly settled at the olm when the air became intensely hot and oppressive.
If this scheme should prove oppressive, provincially or parochially, he was willing to give it up.
The moon was overcast, and the atmosphere stifling and oppressive, precursory of a thunderstorm.
He was alone under his own rooftree, alone with an oppressive silence and his own thoughts.
If formed on equal and just principles, it can not be oppressive.
African feministic writers have a duty to create cultural change by speaking out against oppressive and unconscionable widowhood practices.
The oppressive south wind, which had blown throughout the day, still prevailed at night.
The light titter, the giddy whisper, had already in some measure relieved my mind of that fond and oppressive fancy.
Her heart beat no faster, and she looked at the half-bare hedgerows and the ploughed field with the same sense of oppressive dulness as before.
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