Sentence example with the word 'oppressor'

oppressor

absolute monarch, arrogator, bully, czar, disciplinarian, hard master, martinet, persecutor, slave driver, taskmaster, tyrant

Definition n. a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

Last update: September 11, 2015


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As it was, he looked at his comrades, half wishing that they would combine with him against their joint oppressor.   [Please select]

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Grant; but he ran till he had placed a safe distance between himself and his potent oppressor.   [Please select]

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Thus, Ehud the Benjamite, who treacherously gained admittance to the presence of Eglon, secretly slew this Moabite oppressor of the Hebrews.   [Please select]

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Goaded into uncontrollable madness, even the slave will sometimes turn upon his oppressor.   [Please select]

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The only alternatives were to go lightless and smokeless or to assault the heartless oppressor.   [Please select]

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He was proud of calamity, impoverishment, isolation; they were the scars on pilgrims' feet--honour-marks left by the oppressor.   [Please select]

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Thou shalt pronounce this parable upon the King of Babylon; and shalt say: How hath the oppressor ceased.   [Please select]

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They will welcome us as men who have struggled to the last for liberty against the oppressor, and who have nobly upheld the honour of the Iceni.   [Please select]

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I swam away from the boat which had been pursuing me, as though from an instinct which prompted me to escape my oppressor; but Mr.   [Please select]

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