Smothering Sentence Examples

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  • After smothering a yawn, she asked, "Did you send me that money?"

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  • Betsy was seated at the table, forking sausage onto her plate and smothering pancakes in maple syrup.

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  • But you're smothering me.

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  • It looked innocent enough, and the children were instantly smothering him with love and kisses.

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  • However, he had died from respiratory failure due to accidental smothering and traumatic asphyxia.

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  • While smothering the meat with thick sauce isn't recommended, typical ingredients in barbeques can yield excellent results.

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  • I left because he's a smothering mother hen.

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  • The defense was smothering, and even after Wolves Ty Shaw went to the free throw line, they were still scoreless.

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  • With her empty hand she drew Antonia close, raising the liquid into the air and then smothering her visitor's face.

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  • This attitude of smothering kids in cotton wool is just becoming foolish.

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  • Fred O'Connor was off to the post office, but before leaving, he ceremoniously presented Martha with thirty dollars and a smothering hug.

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  • With her empty hand she drew Antonia close, raising the liquid into the air and then smothering her visitor 's face.

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  • She could move her head to one side or the other causing a risk of smothering.

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  • Can be an equal partner in her life without either person smothering.

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  • Your challenge will be keeping your emotional nature from smothering your natural fire and passion for life.

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  • Keeping the computer in a common area of the house such as in a den or kitchen, can help you monitor their Internet time without hovering and smothering.

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  • There was a fine line between protecting and smothering, though.

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  • On one occasion he trapped a number of his enemies, the Berber chiefs of the Ronda, into visiting him, and got rid of them by smothering them in the hot room of a bath.

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