Sentences with oppressive
op·pres·sive
O o - The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.
- The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out.
- Maybe that one was evidence of the near oppressive workload under which the secret seven labour.
- The country is ruled by an oppressive regime.
- ...the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain.
- An oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- This region suffers from oppressive heat in the summer months.
- I think these laws are oppressive.
- oppressive heat.
- oppressive sorrows.
- The situation was extremely tense; no one said a word, and the silence was oppressive.
- Despite the cheery nature of these identical twins, the oppressive gloom of Arbus' photographs adds something lugubrious to her subjects.