How to Use "oppressed" with Example Sentences
- 1. North koreans are by and large hungry , oppressed , cloistered and treated as infants .
- 2. Africans across the continent and oppressed peoples elsewhere still look to south africa 's leader as a beacon of hope .
- 3. Oppression involves the subjugation of a person or group ...... the word " oppressed " comes from latin , to " press down , " and its synonym , " down-trodden , " suggests a sense of being " crushed under " or " flattened . "
- 4. It emboldened iraq 's kurdish minority , so raising fears of unrest in syria 's and iran 's own oppressed kurdish regions .
- 5. It is why I believe we must work much harder to reach out to those unsure of who is the oppressed , and who the oppressor .