How to Use repressed in a Sentence

repressed

adjective
Definition of repressednext
Synonyms for repressednext
  • Which are the myths and which are the repressed memories?
    — Juneameliarose, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The boat ride met my repressed need to let great distances sink in.
    — Alli Harvey, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 July 2017
  • If that’s not return-of-the-repressed enough, the old war resurfaces as well.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Peter’s the repressed guy, and that may have been a good thing for me to be playing at that time.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • Freud saw dreams as the fulfilment of a repressed wish.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • One of the most repressed things for Black people in this country has been our voice.
    — Reid Singer, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The waves of the sea roll fitfully like surges of repressed desire.
    — Minh Nguyen, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a kind of a cliche that Americans are very open and Brits are very repressed.
    — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 14 Sep. 2024
  • But Dreamhouse Ken isn’t the barely repressed macho dope of the movie.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Michelle Williams plays Lizzy in a wavy mop of brown hair, with a slight frown, so that her whole demeanor seems repressed and a bit frumpy.
    — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
  • The forest that once repressed sharp rays of sun had given away to stretches of black ash.
    — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • At one point, a throwback to the baroque era emerges amid the edgy soundscape, like a repressed memory.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
  • Repression building Protests over the vote in the streets of Venezuela have been fiercely repressed.
    — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The bite mark struck Dahl as proof maybe she had been involved and repressed memories from that night.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • From Lexington and the Bastille to the streets of Algiers, the toll on a repressed people seeking freedom is steep.
    — Zeke J Miller, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Benzion’s arrival heralds, for Blum, the return of the repressed.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The repressed emotions fracture her in two as a dark creature sprouts from deep within her.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 May 2022
  • In the 1960s, college students across the country fought so that repressed ideas would receive a fair hearing.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The film telegraphs that the true romance will be between Loretta and Alan, the repressed brain and the impractical brawn.
    — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • It’s the You that has all those repressed memories and feelings from your childhood that resurface from time to time.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Doing so brings her to meet another night-type, Eli (Belmont Cameli), who has a repressed past of his own.
    — Angela Andaloro, EW.com, 23 June 2022
  • Though the characters that live in this 1950s era are repressed, the show is so bold in representation.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 July 2024
  • The woman who suspected Robert of taking Alexis said the idea had come to her as part of a repressed memory.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • All of it, the fake delivery truck, the cell, the blinding lights, just so a repressed little man could issue threats and shuffle papers at his desk.
    — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • There is a certain kind of return of the repressed when the father who is kept out of history raises the son who must return and destroy.
    — Emily Burack, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021
  • Do not let repressed anger build up and turn into a physical ailment.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2020
  • Even those who are not members of a repressed minority can now feel the weight of the country’s influence.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The show is heavy on painting — return of the repressed, baby! — and, despite its posthuman inquiries, light on new media.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The show for me is all about removing this repressed sensual and erotic energy that has been in place for so long.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • As her pursuits get increasingly relentless, he is forced to come face-to-face with a deep, dark, repressed trauma.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'repressed.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: