Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
He could not protect the natives: all that he could do was to abstain from plundering and oppressing them; and this he appears to have done.
The Irish people might at that time have been, in all probability, reclaimed from Popery, at the expense of half the zeal and activity which Whitgift employed in oppressing Puritans, and Martin Marprelate in reviling bishops.
While Charles wasoppressing the people, Falkland was a resolute champion of liberty.
The government went on, oppressing at home, and blundering in all its measures abroad.
Previous to the French Revolution, were they not the basest adulators of kings, whose prerogatives they extended immeasurably, with the intention of making regal power the means of oppressing the Church?
While oppressing many who were under his control, he had the keenest appreciation of power, and to men who were wielding great influence he exhibited the most deferential consideration.
She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness.
Come now, let us talk of you," she added, tossing her head, as though she would physically shake off something superfluousoppressing her.
When that day comes I will try to prevent others from oppressing them, as I now try to prevent them from oppressing others.
Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, and oppressing them that are under thee.
In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.
Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.
Amos Chapter 4 The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigibleness.
Micheas Chapter 3 For the sins of the rich oppressing the poor, of false prophets flattering for lucre, and of judges perverting justice, Jerusalem and the temple shall be destroyed.
Whether this was so or not, those officially in the service of the two powers soon grew as zealous in oppressing one another as in oppressing men of different nationalities.
Then they returned to Mongolia because the Yellow Lamas called them to light against the Kings of Tibet, Lamas of the 'red caps,' who were oppressing the people.
It is beyond a doubt that this doctrine served to keep the majority from oppressing the minority whatever may have been its name.
Swaine vsed the victorie verie cruellie against the Englishmen, oppressing them on each hand; to the intent that them being brought low he might gouerne in more suertie.
Until to-morrow" replies Clarissa, with an attempt at gayety, though in reality the child's mournful face is oppressing her.
Just now some worrying thought is oppressing her, and spoiling the flavor of her tea; her kidney loses its grace, her toast its crispness.
As he regains the ball-room, the remembrance of the little partner he has come to claim rushes back upon him pleasantly, and serves to dissipate the gloomy and somewhat indignant thoughts that have been oppressing him.
By all the love that is between us, by the tie that should bind an only child to a widowed mother, will you tell me what are the thoughts that are oppressing you?
The dread "nevermore," that Edgar Poe could not drive from his heart and sight, was oppressing her.
The threatenings and reproofs uttered against Israel, throughout the old Testament, on the subject of slavery, refer to their oppressing and keeping in slavery their own countrymen.
Foma, painfully and bitterly, feeling that grief was oppressing his heart with ever greater power.
How much money can a man honestly earn without wronging or oppressing some other man?
The poor also oppressing the poor, is like a sweeping rain that leaves nothing behind it.
There are as many ways of oppressing others, as there are advantages to men of power against them.
Mortify your own lusts and sinful curiosity, which maketh you think that you need so much, as tempteth you to get it by oppressing others.
It is not lawful to take up or keep up any oppressing monopoly or trade, which tendeth to enrich you by the loss of the commonwealth or of many.
The Spirit also said, that some in the congregation were guilty of oppressing the poor, taking unlawful usury, oppressing the hireling in his wages, and many other sins of a similar character.
It is the idea when that oppressing the lowest we may actually be oppressing the highest, and that not even impersonally, but personally.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oppressing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
