Smother Sentence Examples

All hints of hesitation left the young girl in the wake of the smother of love that enveloped her.

Cynthia, who'd followed the men to the door, was the first to smother the young girl in hugs and kisses, and an ample dose of tears with the others joining in with equal enthusiasm.

Of more long-term concern must be the general despondency and malaise that is threatening to smother everything at the club.

A waiter tried to smother the flames with what he found to hand - a coat.

Petroleum jelly- Just like the mayo treatment, petroleum jelly is often used as a home cure used to smother lice and their eggs.

This helps to maintain warmth and moisture, but be careful to uncover them when they begin to sprout so they do n't smother.

Do not smother these account pages in common details, or details of other accounts.

Want to smother the weeds on your plot with layers of old carpet?

Heath burst through onto a ball from Davidson only for Hook to smother the ball at his feet.

On the hour mark Dave Roberts was called in to action as he did superbly to smother a shot at the back post.

Smother crops of maize, vetches or mustard will assist in choking out the weed.

They should be constructed so the mother is not able to lean against the side and accidently smother a pup.

The flowers of these kinds are not showy, their growth is coarse, and they smother choicer things.

Oils like canola will smother insect eggs to prevent them from hatching.

It's airy and light enough so it won't smother delicate strawberry plants, but it will keep the crowns from freezing.

Olive oil or petroleum ointment may be used to smother head lice.

In rescues, a blanket may be used to smother any flames as the person is removed from danger.

Leighton Andrews's curious article tried to smother the campaign with a layer of induced boredom.

Who art thou, miserable man, who would smother and extinguish in others the fire of God's Spirit which it has pleased him to kindle in them ?

I know you like him a lot, but make sure you don't smother him or you might scare him away.

It could smother the plant and encourage disease.

In English th represents both the unvoiced sound J as in thin, &c., and the voiced sound 5, which is found initially only in pronominal words like this, that, there, then, those, is commonest medially as in father, bother, smother, either, and is found also finally in words like with (the preposition), both.

The men who would jump on their fellow Crusaders in an effort to smother the flames and keep them from being burned alive become the first firefighters.

Because it contains canola oil, it is an effective oil treatment that will smother eggs, preventing the next generation of pests from hatching.

In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses.

The seeds are sown in April, on rich ground, which should not be too highly manured; the young larches are planted out when two years old, or sometimes transferred to a nursery bed to attain a larger size; but, like all conifers, they succeed best when planted young; on the mountains, the seedlings are usually put into a mere slit made in the ground by a spade with a triangular blade, the place being first cleared of any heath, bracken, or tall herbage that might smother the young tree; the plants should be from 3 to 4 ft.