Suffocating Sentence Examples

She entered the forest, and the darkness was crushing, suffocating her.

This time, it was suffocating him.

The heat was suffocating.

It is a colourless gas which possesses a characteristic suffocating odour.

Nature has provided several species of animals, birds and reptiles, to feed upon these insects, and various poisonous and suffocating compounds are used to destroy them, but with no great degree of success.

At one and the same moment came the sound of an explosion, a whistle of splinters as from a breaking window frame, a suffocating smell of powder, and Prince Andrew started to one side, raising his arm, and fell on his chest.

It is a colourless, strongly fuming gas which has a suffocating smell.

She was hanging from the stanchion and suffocating.

Their "firedamp" (formerly fulminating damp) is marsh gas, which, when mixed with air and exploded, produced "choke damp," "after damp," or "suffocating damp" (carbon dioxide).

Listening to the controlled whirlwinds at night we squash our lust under suffocating standard blankets.

We pass silently through the cool dark inner hall and exit into the suffocating white heat of the street.

We have seen how the Government 's rigid and centralized target culture is suffocating innovation and local discretion in the public services.

From increased carbon emissions to polluted oceans, the earth is slowly suffocating.

Critics called her ballads "nauseating" and said they were performed with "suffocating professionalism."

Boning conjures up all sorts of wild images of when women confined themselves to fit into suffocating corsets, but luckily, boning has come a long way since then.

While some people believe that a heavy sweatsuit is required, you only lose water weight when perspiring so much in a suffocating outfit.

Suffocating in an atmosphere of cruelty and baseness, Chenier's agony found expression almost to the last in these murderous Iambes which he launched against the Convention.

At ordinary temperatures it is a colourless gas, possessing a penetrating and suffocating smell.

Chlorine is a gas of a greenish-yellow colour, and possesses a characteristic unpleasant and suffocating smell.

Carbon dioxide is colorless, non combustible with a faintly acid smell, has a suffocating effect and is heavier than air.

Another suffocating Labor majority meant creative unrest not empty subservience.

During the night many men died and all suffered severely from thirst, and the suffocating atmosphere, water was promised but not given.

Sounds and smells, like the suffocating smoke in the farmhouses without a chimney, are completely missing.

The curriculum is suffocating under the weight of the emphasis on numeracy and literacy.

The theory around this idea was centered around the thought that babies who sleep on their tummies risk suffocating during their sleep.