How to Use suppress in a Sentence
suppress
verb
- The governor tried to suppress the news.
- She could not suppress her anger.
- He struggled to suppress his feelings of jealousy.
- I had to suppress an urge to tell him what I really thought.
- Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
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Plant spinach in between turnip rows to suppress weeds.
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Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Oct. 2024
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Eight years later, Rose bites his lip to suppress a laugh.
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Sarah Grant,
SPIN,
10 Apr. 2024
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Watch the video above to find out how middle-class wages are being suppressed.
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Juhohn Lee,
CNBC,
4 Oct. 2024
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Those involved in the Tates’ PR efforts have gone to great lengths to suppress those who speak out against them.
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Ioana Erdei,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2023
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And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions.
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Georgia Slater,
Peoplemag,
17 Oct. 2023
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Cough Drops Sucking on cough drops can suppress a cough and moisten a dry, scratchy throat.
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Jessica Migala,
Health,
19 June 2024
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For now, the hope is that their spread can be suppressed in some way, possibly by targeting the queens of the ant colonies.
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Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
25 Jan. 2024
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Neither the church nor the French First Republic could suppress the santons for long.
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Kathleen Brady,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Dec. 2022
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The government sued to suppress them, and while the case made its way through the courts, Ellsberg leaked the papers to The Washington Post.
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Steven Levy,
WIRED,
26 Aug. 2022
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Critics say these efforts aim to suppress the true racial history of the U.S.
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Kiara Alfonseca,
ABC News,
6 Sep. 2022
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Until then, Somers will suppress his urge to claw deeper into the earth.
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Popular Mechanics,
14 Apr. 2023
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People try to avoid them, suppress them or ignore them.
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Heather Lench,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2024
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Warm sea water fuels storms, so this tends to suppress them.
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Tom Yulsman,
Discover Magazine,
8 June 2022
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To suppress the noise, Osborne breathed in between hiccups.
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Kellie B. Gormly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 June 2022
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Dead scale won’t fall off right away, though treatments for scale will probably suppress aphids at the same time.
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Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Sep. 2022
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This in turn will naturally suppress weed growth and reduce the need for weed killers.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Jan. 2023
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The rate hikes have slowly helped to suppress inflation, though perhaps not as quickly as the Fed had hoped.
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Matt Ott,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 July 2023
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Don’t suppress them Forcing yourself to stop thinking a certain way won’t wish the thoughts away.
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Alexa Mikhail,
Fortune Well,
8 Mar. 2023
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Your process was suppressed for years under pressure to hide your true self from others.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
14 July 2023
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Before that was cool, you were encouraged to suppress your African-ness.
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Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2024
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Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
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Matt Ott,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 Aug. 2023
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Studies have showed the class of drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, work to suppress appetite and promote weight loss.
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Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
4 Aug. 2023
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Firefighters again worked overnight to suppress flare-ups.
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Natallie Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Apr. 2024
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Democrats challenged that the law did nothing to accomplish those goals and would instead suppress votes.
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Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
31 Oct. 2024
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This can cause leaders of color to suppress their leadership skills and confidence.
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Cynthia Pong, Jd,
Forbes,
29 Oct. 2024
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