How to Use "oppressive" with Example Sentences
- 1. He was sent to an oppressive boarding school .
- 2. Many exiles find switzerland oppressive and miss london 's variety .
- 3. The state would have to build a costly and oppressive infrastructure to audit private assets .
- 4. The oppressive and morbid atmosphere in which he had been brought up had paralysed his social development , but he soon became confident , optimistic and self-reliant .
- 5. Migrants who fled oppressive governments , for example , can hardly be expected to bankroll the regimes that drove them away .