Use of the word oppressively in a sentence example

oppressively

Last update: September 20, 2015

The climate is moist and sometimes oppressively hot, though pleasant on the whole. [Please select]

But, above all, this room was silent, most oppressively silent. [Please select]

The sky was clear of clouds and the day promised to be a beautiful one, without being oppressively warm. [Please select]

The law, too, might be used oppressively by the niggardly and narrow-minded. [Please select]

And she was handsome, well provided, well connected--oppressively so, indeed; a man might quail a little before her relations. [Please select]

As Stephen Boldero had foretold, Geoffrey did not find his work on shore oppressively hard. [Please select]

I was left some minutes in the oppressively silent hall, shaken, startled, ashamed of my garrulity, aching to get away. [Please select]

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