Sentence examples for repressed from high-quality English sources.

• The apparatus of church and state haven’t repressed these people.

• The bishop said worshipers' rights are being “unjustly repressed,” by the government.

• She repressed a shudder but still her shoulders hunched, as if she were anticipating a blow.

• As an emotionally repressed young man, Luther built it and laid the plumbing with his own hands.

• The rights of sexual and gender minorities are often repressed across the Middle East.

• But are there really ghosts in the Himalayas, or are the incomers succumbing to long-repressed primal desires?

• (Most summaries of Freud’s theory mistakenly describe laughter as a release of repressed emotions themselves.)

• Repressed sexuality was the cause of various neuroses and it was important to have an active and free sexuality.

Use repressed in a sentence.

• The British repressed the sirdars, or Sikh leaders, but left the rest of the community and its religion untouched.

• Did I myself feel any guilt perhaps—long-repressed if so & this is mere speculation (defense here) about Daddy’s death?

• The whole point of psychoanalysis is to bring repressed material into consciousness, where it can be identified and disarmed.

• Although most of the DNA in a given cell at a given time is repressed (i.e., blocked from functioning), it is more repressed in old animals.

• Therefore they repressed sexuality; that is, repressed it in themselves and their literature, while containing it within specified limits in society.

• Psychoanalysis seeks to uncover repressed memories and feelings through free association as well as to examine the repressed wishes released in dreams.

• Similar appeals to Nicaraguans were reinforced by events in Nicaragua, where Daniel Ortega, the country’s strongman President, has repressed dissent and brutalized opponents.

• Strong links were forged between Basque nationalists and the local clergy in the late 19th century, which grew when General Franco repressed any expression of Basque identity.

repressed sentence examples

• "Cummins has been attacked for exaggerating her ethnic background and for failing to note that her Irish husband — once an illegal immigrant — didn't belong to a sufficiently repressed minority group.

• Free association is also difficult because the patient might resist recalling repressed experiences or feelings that are connected with intense or conflicting emotions the patient has never resolved or settled.

• “So many of these people,” Liza proclaimed gravely, making a sweeping gesture that included couples on benches, families playing in the grass, and a group of women practicing Tai Chi, “are living lives ruined by repressed trauma surrounding their wisdom teeth.”

• First, it could be that some or all of the suppressors de-repressed the native, genomic CLN2 locus, allowing viability, but that the degree of de-repressed CLN2 expression was modest, and viability also required a trace of additional expression, which could come either from RME1 (driving genomic CLN2), or from repressed MET-CLN2 (expressing low, residual levels of CLN2).