smother

How To Use smother In A Sentence

• This can lead to reduced coral growth, inability to recover from hazards like cyclones, smothering of coral by sediment, fish poisoning and unusually high growth rates for organisms that overgrow coral or support its rivals.
• Tayrah took a deep breath and smothered the anger she felt approaching and then quickly changed the subject.
• It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
• The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
• They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off.
• One hill I passed over I found to be composed of puddingstone, that is to say, a conglomeration of many kinds of stone mostly rounded and mixed up in a mass, and formed by the smothered bubblings of some ancient and ocean-quenched volcano. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
• The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
• In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same - a blanket of wet cow manure.
• The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.
• Scrape it onto your plate and use it to smother a dish of new potatoes - mountain food at its best.