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    Use "stifle" in a sentence

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    1. I bit my lip to stifle the scream when I felt warm human fingers touch my arm


    2. Apollo slides down the corner of his cell with his palms pressed firmly against his ears, trying to stifle the girl's cries


    3. I'm still not going to fall for it, Apollo thinks to himself as he lies back down on the bed, trying to stifle his appetite that's suddenly eating away at his determination


    4. 'This will last a day or two, but if we stifle it, it could explode into a huge civil


    5. Emily was thankful for the elf's intervention, though she wished she had the power to stifle him herself


    6. Seeing her like that caused tears to well up in his eyes and he bit on his lower lip to stifle the cry of frustration that rose up from inside


    7. He could not stifle a chuckle at the sounds of an irritated and intoxicated Vulwulf Snow-Shod growing more and more boisterous


    8. hide smirks or stifle snickers


    9. They had to stifle their humor at once


    10. But he sniffled harshly in an effort to stifle it

    11. He clapped his hands over his mouth for Doc's sake to stifle the laughter


    12. Many people see the Bible as a Book full of rules which strips you of your own choices - a set of laws that would stifle your lifestyles and put you in a cage


    13. ' She rocked back and forth trying to stifle her laughter


    14. She broke into giggles and covered her mouth in an attempt to stifle them,


    15. ” I almost laughed when he said that but managed to stifle it


    16. Mr Jordine couldn’t stifle the giggle that slipped through his shiny white teeth


    17. He had to stifle his laughter again, ‘My parents will love you, truly they will


    18. She brought her hand to her mouth to stifle it


    19. “Never heard of them,” he replied, trying to stifle his pique


    20. “Come on, darling, let’s get it over with,” he said, managing to stifle the tears that were threatening to overwhelm him

    21. I looked at Nugget who did nothing but shrug his shoulders while trying hard to stifle the laughter that was turning his face beet red and making tears roll down his cheeks


    22. I cover my mouth to stifle a sob


    23. Apsu could not stifle their cries and Tiamat was speechless at their behavior


    24. Apsu could not stifle Their cries and Tiamat was speechless at Their behavior


    25. He grits his teeth to stifle a groan


    26. I feel a flare of anger—how many things is he going to keep from me?—and try to stifle it


    27. It didn’t stifle him


    28. “When the Abnegation wanted to reveal the great truth of their world sooner than they were supposed to,” she says slowly, “and Jeanine wanted to stifle them


    29. another trick up his sleeve however, that was sure to stifle her


    30. Her daughter continued to eat to stifle the nervous feeling she

    31. AJ was trying to stifle his laughter; he knew that a long journey lay ahead and it wasn’t exactly comfort or style he would be travelling in


    32. I can’t give you that kind of money!” His voice had turned to a higher pitch by now but he tried desperately to stifle it


    33. Suzy placed a hand over her mouth to stifle the gasp


    34. ” One real Change Obama offers is to stifle opposing views until one united Obamedia chants in perfect rhythm with the Obaprompters all across the land


    35. Vituperation such as this is an attempt by the revolutionary left to stifle debate on the radical measures this administration intends to adopt


    36. I fished some more and she told me that he had a reserved seat and what he normally did here, I had to stifle a cringe every time


    37. I stifle a laugh, my mouth still by his ear


    38. Her hand came up to stifle a sob before running to her grandmother


    39. Mark yawned, then tried to stifle it


    40. Talia and Povon had to laugh aloud, though they tried to stifle it, and the astronomer completely disregarded that as well

    41. Could he not see that Francis would stifle me and eventually kill my sprit?


    42. 16 And when the spearmen said Consent to eat that you may be released from your tortures 17 he answered not so powerful O accursed ministers is your wheel as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs and burn my flesh and twist my joints


    43. motionless trying to stifle any bodily indication that might accompany this realization


    44. share, treat others respectfully, stifle their violent thoughts? Is


    45. Back home they saw nothing of Trask the rest of the day, and Charly did her best to stifle Frankie's questions


    46. Several men were splattered by the burning tar-like substance that had been filled into the carts and scalded men rolled around screaming on the floor frantically trying to stifle the flames


    47. Then he noticed the face of the cap-owner and he had to stifle a gasp of shock


    48. But she could not stifle the sound of the gun popping so close that she felt the bullet rush past her when it exploded in its next victim


    49. She shivered trying to stifle a laugh, and grinned


    50. She grabbed my hand and with great resolution sank it under the cold water stream that flowed from the tap, as if she wanted to stifle it









































    1. Vinnie stifled a yell and grabbed his ear in pain, dropping the unused boomerang


    2. His stifled tears came flooding out


    3. "And how many seconds ago were you telling me you couldn't be stifled in a fundamentalist extremist relationship?"


    4. fortunately they stifled the sounds


    5. Hadn't she been telling him, as politely as she could (up until now), that she would not be stifled in a monogamous relationship with him? He hadn't acted on that


    6. 'Oh, I don't think he's ever been over wound,' Daphne stifled a yawn


    7. trousers and the low-hanging branches, and he stifled several yelps as


    8. Chloe, stifled a laugh, it hadn't occurred to her that they were anything but her new friends, so inured to Harry's arrival these many years


    9. But once again, what would one really act like if one had grown up as he had? She stifled the anger and sat back up on the end of the cushion beside him


    10. "Alec? You there boy?" The voice was gruff and loud, even though stifled by the door

    11. Rollinthor and his fellows stifled their chuckles


    12. "No band" said Flitter quietly as Miss Pringle's stifled sobs could still be heard at the back of the hall


    13. A cry was stifled in my throat


    14. the Fixer noticed she stifled a yawn with her card hand


    15. Jack stood like a statue, listening to Maureen's stifled sobbing


    16. Forgo felt as if his heart were going to burst, and he even stifled down a rare tear or two


    17. For too long, they had stifled their passions for reasons of pride-Rachel hanging onto her parents’ notions of class distinction and Clarence giving in to his own male ego-but they had returned to each other’s arms-and beds-since the strange occurrences of the past week


    18. A bizarre urge to laugh uproariously was stifled only because, with each rapidly taken breath that would begin it, came a painful and abrupt sensation deep within her center of a heated cable drawing taut


    19. She particularly appreciated how a well-trained horse – as should any well-trained man – would respond to the slightest pressure offered by her thighs as guidance, and how a sharp flick of the crop, snapped so the beast could hear it, instantly stifled disobedience


    20. Macey stifled a scream, tearing at her hair in her fear of what was to come

    21. At this I stifled a sob, but I sensed that if anyone could


    22. UGHH!” but stifled other outbursts


    23. She stifled a laugh and told me that she could make a hundred bucks on a good day in tips alone – particularly if this one sad soul named Doc – some jerkwater groupie from Canada came in to eat


    24. She stifled the worst of the sobs and moans that welled up from her insides, but still she wept


    25. “Why should I accept your offer? What makes you certain, what can you do to us that you have not done already? Haven’t you stifled growth, education, trade, economy? Isn’t almost everything under your control, in one form or another? Except perhaps the air we breath


    26. She stifled some tears that welled up in her eyes and sniffed slightly


    27. Pops just lowered his head, with a momentary glare, and stifled his next comment


    28. Sam raised her head, stifled a scream, and shuffled away on her backside to the wall


    29. He leant with one hand against the nearest wall and stifled a yawn with the other


    30. The EPA has stifled Alan Carlin, a senior research analyst at the EPA who questioned the outdated

    31. The sad fact of it was we were no closer to finding Dorian and the police pressure due to all of the murders that were happening stifled us


    32. His left chest cage was pretty tender, but he stifled the grimace


    33. "What a view--what an outlook! At times I feel stifled down there in the Glen


    34. I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them


    35. Faith could restrain herself no longer and broke into a stifled giggle


    36. The hot gases and smoke from the intense destruction stifled


    37. She was about to scream but Hobbs stifled it with his heavy hand


    38. “Have you forgotten who you booked slut?” Chuck spat irritated, I stifled a flinch just as I saw Jesse’s fists clench


    39. I got out of my clothes and wore my pajamas trousers, I went back out, she glared at me and I stifled a smile “Where were we?” I asked


    40. 12 And God saw all his works, and swore to him, and promised him that he would deliver his sons and all his seed from every trouble that would befall them, because he had done this thing, and through his love to his God stifled his compassion for his child

    41. “Be serious please,” I said and she stifled her laugh


    42. My gaze couldn’t help wondering to his rigid member and I stifled a shiver


    43. I stifled a flinch and his mother looked down


    44. ” He repeated my words with a stifled chuckle


    45. I stifled a laugh “Oh please, you do it all the time


    46. ” I added and stifled a laugh when gasped in outrage


    47. ” I said then I stifled a gasp when Jesse scooped me into his arms and carried me to the kitchen, sitting me on the counter


    48. Making fun of cooking was a routine, so also with housekeeping—though she liked to read “The Hindu” aloud in English, and also “Reader’s Digest” at the top of her voice as she turned a corner eye and a stifled giggle on the uneasy neighbor on a recipe-collecting errand


    49. stifled by unwarranted fear and trepidation


    50. The EPA has stifled Alan Carlin, a senior research analyst at the EPA who questioned the outdated research on the health effects of greenhouse gases














































    1. The sleeper stifles a cough


    2. She stifles the tears for a moment, but she can't hold them back for long


    3. The mousy-haired girl clamps her hand over her mouth and stifles a sob


    4. ’ Can we find just one politician who will interrupt another when the other speaks of ‘raising taxes’? Can we find just one politician out there who points out the difference between raising tax rates and raising tax revenues? Raising tax rates will bring in more revenue for a while, until it stifles the economy


    5. Sharon stifles a laugh, but Koongi’s anger shoots out of his eyes


    6. Sean stifles a laugh


    7. Ultimately, it stifles our ability to be fully human


    8. That fosters an organisational culture that stifles creativity and innovation, especially when we are preparing for the negotiation, and leaves members of the organisation afraid to speak up


    9. One of the worst things about a cult, is that it stifles original thinking


    10. Loki stifles a laugh at Beatrice’s conspiratorial prompting, but he’s more impressed than repulsed

    11. Clenching his teeth, Loki stifles his protest


    12. She stifles a moan, one hand splayed against the floor the other hungrily gripping his side, both trembling


    13. cave, for the heat stifles them


    14. Until you get a standardized, duplicated, dead, boring environment that stifles and destroys all creativity


    15. This illustrates how civilization represses, suppresses, stifles, denies, our healthy genetic yearnings… and turns them into sick-twisted yearnings… incoherent urges that are stifled and blocked so deeply: they only can surface in convoluted, distorted zigzag paths that destroy the pure intent of our blind healthy instinctive energy trying to get out of us


    16. When everyone is given an equal chance for life and health and happiness: there will be no more pointless adversarial competition, there will be no more obsolete pyramidal structure or culture which stifles and sabotages all attempts to improve things and make them better


    17. The working environment that is created for the women that stifles their creativity and the boredom that comes with a paid job are some of the reasons behind this


    18. Love-making stifles me in the daytime


    19. He stifles a theatrical yawn


    20. In our days,’ continued Vera-mentioning ‘our days’ as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of ‘our days’ and that human characteristics change with the times- ‘in our days a girl has so much freedom that the pleasure of being courted often stifles real feeling in her

    21. In the one case as in the other, on both sides the struggle provokes passion and stifles truth


    22. I hate a law that stifles generosity and makes charity good business


    23. In our days,” continued Véra—mentioning “our days” as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of “our days” and that human characteristics change with the times—“in our days a girl has so much freedom that the pleasure of being courted often stifles real feeling in her


    1. It was an aching desert, the gravel was a dirty brown, the noon breeze was still stifling


    2. In my head I tried to sing snatches of songs from my childhood, but the stifling emptiness of this demonic and industrial womb-space drove the shapes and sounds of words and melodies into a frantic jumble of static


    3. "I don't know why that worries you so? If he's that stifling you should move on


    4. the stifling air and tension inside


    5. “Do you need some help with that?” Tipene asked, stifling a giggle


    6. That was too much for her nerves, she jumped and tossed it in the air; stifling a scream


    7. struggling with the stifling heat


    8. The beating of a drum, vibrating her insides, hammering at her chest, stifling the sound of her own voice with the pounding of her heart


    9. The second day after the operation was a stifling thirty-


    10. Stifling her laughter in the cup of one hand while pointing with the other, Emily let her globes dissipate

    11. He's told me about wars because of religious fundamentalism and the stifling, stifling, stifling, laws against anything people somewhere, somehow, might enjoy


    12. The air above was clouded in darkness and smoke, stifling the light of a thousand fires burning in the very sky itself


    13. The air was hot, stifling their efforts to breathe


    14. I still wake every day stifling a scream, fresh from abandoning my brother yet again


    15. "Indeed he does," Mr Snickerty agreed, making great theatre of stifling a yawn


    16. These considerations alone were a pain, were stifling to his creativity


    17. ' She sat up and cocked an ear, stifling her giggles


    18. The inmates huddled closer, cutting off his air supply, stifling him


    19. Emerging from a narrow tunnel-like waterway under the trees, which I had traversed for the last hour, winding in and out among the mangrove roots, amid the semi-darkness made by the dense foliage overhead, with its stifling, steam-like atmosphere, heavy with the foul smell of putrefying mud and rotting vegetation, I reached drier ground


    20. She stepped closer to the bed, hand covering her mouth, stifling a not yet formed scream

    21. She sniffed a little as if stifling her tears


    22. “You no unnerstan,” she answered, stifling her laughter as she reached to touch Beth’s hand


    23. Up and down the street, not a thing was in motion, not so much as the wind to stir the stifling heat


    24. Ruby gasped, stifling a small noise


    25. He walked out of the airport terminal into a stifling sticky heat wave


    26. The vacuum of space is the perfect insulator, and our own body temperature will soon make it stifling hot in here


    27. Pain rushes through my body in sharp bursts, but I try to ignore it, stifling a groan


    28. Despite the stifling heat of the room, he wears a long-sleeved shirt that buttons at the wrists—he must have been distracted when he dressed this morning


    29. A wave of stifling heat bore


    30. The dark was stifling but not as much as the temperature, as he

    31. If he thought that the atmosphere was stifling in the Yemeni


    32. Sometimes the concern was stifling, but at the end of the day, I loved having him around


    33. After I had strolled in from the ice cold air of the environment into the stifling heat of the hospital’s heater through the sliding doors, my nerves went crazy


    34. I held up my hands “I have nothing to do with this” I said stifling a chuckle


    35. “No” I said, Jesse was stifling a laugh when I glared at him “You’re loving this, aren’t you?” I asked


    36. I nodded stifling a shudder of my own from remembering Jesse’s face when he told me this “Thanks for telling me mom” I said, “I’ll be careful,” I added


    37. ” She called out to me, barely stifling her own laugh, I saw red


    38. And this stifling State, it did so spread,


    39. “After increasingly stifling his research, the government fired him in 1989


    40. The silence stifling, Morgan looked to the direction from which they had come

    41. to be too stifling for humid Southeast Asia


    42. With that, Thomas spat on the rock floor, causing the night-woman to cry out before stifling her cries with her hand


    43. And, as he stumbled forward, fighting to keep his balance even though he could scarcely breathe and the whiteness was stifling him, he knew who was in reach and whom he should try


    44. He tried to cry out but his teeth were full of rocks, slivers of them fighting their way up from his throat, over his gums and through his lips into the stifling air


    45. Stifling a gasp, she glanced down


    46. D said, stifling a yawn


    47. Therefore when she snuggled into bed one night, nuzzling my neck, caressing the cods, and stifling sobs I felt cheated


    48. It was beyond their wits to estimate how far they had already risen in the stifling chasm


    49. The mountain quaked and the walls crumbled in and collapsed, but the inseparable pair continued to navigate the stifling labyrinth with unparalleled speed and surety


    50. If only you could release your bonds of captivity and end this stifling boredom













































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    Synonyms for "stifle"

    knee stifle asphyxiate suffocate dampen choke muffle repress smother strangle restrain prevent stop keep back check obviate extinguish garrotte

    "stifle" definitions

    joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee


    suppress in order to conceal or hide


    suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity


    impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of


    be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen