suppress

In a sentence

Six example sentences with suppress, each labelled with its topic.

• Engineers use a heavy flywheel to suppress the vibration that would otherwise shake the microscope stage out of focus.

  Science

• Certain drugs suppress the immune response so completely that a transplanted kidney is accepted as if always present.

  Medicine

• Crews cut a wide firebreak to suppress the blaze before the wind turned it toward the orchards below.

  Environment

• The update lets administrators suppress the alert for known outages, so the on-call phone stops buzzing every ten minutes.

  Technology

• Trying to suppress a thought tends to make it return, as anyone told not to picture a white bear quickly discovers.

  Psychology

• The crown tried to suppress the pamphlets by licensing every printing press, and the pamphlets simply moved abroad.

  History

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