How to Use suppression in a Sentence

suppression

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  • Most of it flowed into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, the tree bears no fire scars for 100 years during the policy of fire suppression.
    — David Schechter, Chance Horner, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • Most of this fuel spilled into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • The fire was contained in an area of the 11th and 12 floors of the vessel, which has a Halon fire suppression system, city officials said.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 July 2023
  • The book is most powerful as a depiction of the agony of suppression.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The fight against vote suppression and election sabotage is one of the biggest moral fights of our era.
    — The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The military’s brutal suppression of peaceful protests against the coup led many to fight back.
    — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Fire suppression efforts cost the state millions and the governor's office claimed the agency would pay for 100% of the price tag.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 June 2022
  • The suppression of fires in California over the last century has left the forests with a heavy load of fuel.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Picking up an orb while in max power will now give it suppression.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
  • In my sport of swimming, the requirement is one year of hormone suppression.
    — Riley Gaines, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Voter suppression carries a prison sentence of 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison.
    — Eli Joseph, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • Above all, the suppression of the protests depends on the tools of China’s digital surveillance state.
    — Isabel Hilton, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • This act of suppression caused Coates to show up at a school board meeting in support of the teacher’s concerns about book bans and censorship.
    — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For decades, the U.S. fire policy was suppression: extinguish and prevent all fires across the landscape—even the good kind.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
  • The fuel spilled into a fire suppression line, sat there for six months and then spilled again when a cart rammed into it in November.
    — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 1 July 2022
  • So all of these things are connected—all of the suppression of information about the female body.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 June 2022
  • Kimsey said that the fire suppression system in the Vancouver ballot box did not work.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The technique was highly effective, but the contrail-suppression equipment added 400 pounds to the bomber, reducing the bomb load.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
  • These entities abused their power to achieve a common goal: the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
    — Elizabeth Stauffer, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But in addition, Texas has some of the most stringent voter suppression laws in the country, many of which target Latinos.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Tiktok's entire case, like talking to that judge, was First Amendment and free speech suppression.
    — Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The fire department was on the scene in 10 minutes, city officials said, but fire suppression was not working.
    — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The lever the council used to turn its racist animus into racist action was the suppression of tenant power.
    — Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • If a fire rekindles or escapes, the person who set it is liable for any damage caused, as well as for wildfire suppression costs.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Araud said some diplomats saw the suppression of the diplomatic corps as a form of punishment or demotion.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
  • Johnson plaintiffs would have a harder time arguing suppression of competition in the context of the late 2010s to the present.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
  • The dams, coupled with fire suppression, overindustrialization of the forests, and basin replumbing all took their toll on the river.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The early morning fire at the drop box in Portland was extinguished quickly thanks to a suppression system inside the box as well as a nearby security guard, police said, and just three ballots were damaged there.
    — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024

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