Toggle navigation
fatLingo
TOEFL Words
Academic Words
Sign In
Sentence example with the word 'oppressive'
oppressive
absolute, autocratic, crushing, dispiriting, grievous, ill-ventilated, laborious, overbearing, somber, toilsome, uphill
Definition
adj.
weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
Last update: June 8, 2015
0
Because I am very sensitive to the
oppressive
heat, I tend to spend most of the summer indoors.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Many people come to this country because the
oppressive
leaders in their native lands took away their freedoms.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Deals with the hated and
oppressive
forest laws.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
The very silence was
oppressive
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
After so much noise, it was ominous,
oppressive
, surcharged with threats.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Swiggs was executing this order an
oppressive
silence filled the room.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
The silence was almost
oppressive
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
It is the waiting that is so
oppressive
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
The night was hot and
oppressive
, even on the river.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!
Submit
oppressions
- oppressive -
oppressively
USE IN A SENTENCE
RECENT
prodigious
prate
provoke
prefactory
funnier
provender
proximity
prolong
pundit
perdition
unruly
torpidly
suffused
squamous
snubs
...
POPULAR
demography
abash
glutton
fallacious
inveigle
urbanization
prodigy
abscond
wanderlust
affluent
insatiable
vivacious
foreword
dauntless
delegation
lacerate
eavesdrop
gambol
rambunctious
hypocritical
concatenate
gobble
plutocracy
curveting
belligerent
dyslexia
chronicle
fearless
jaunt
decorum
lambaste
valediction
finicky
bough
outgoing
...
TOP CONTRIBUTORS
Username
Points
hardcore
7857
babyrules
2901
Nemo
1222
nowhere
1095
Aralis
1025
alman777
413
micmac
408