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    Use "stifling" in a sentence

    stifling example sentences

    stifling


    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 "stifling"

    crushing quelling stifling suppression sulfurous sulphurous sultry

    "stifling" definitions

    forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority


    characterized by oppressive heat and humidity