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.
It needs a sunny wall or fence and a neutral to alkaline soil, where it will become smothered in intense blue flowers. Times, Sunday Times
The first, from 30 yards, was well-struck, but the keeper palmed it away and the follow-up from Anthony Ruddy was again smothered by the Erris custodian.
But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
He had no intention of enduring this smothering by overkindness any longer than it took him to figure out how to run away, and where to run to. The Fourth R
In many ways this is rural France's most appealing region, an area of winding back roads, of lost-and-gone hamlets, of tree-smothered hills and of wheat fields bright with poppies and corncockles.
The smothering saleslady held the dress up to me.
Lady's mantle (alchemilla) is another smotherer. Times, Sunday Times
A bulky parka smothered the individual's identity, but the flared black trousers marked him as a member of Starfleet; grinning, Kirk redirected his course to join his snowsuited comrade. The Kobayashi Maru
On the ground, climbing fern creates tough, spongy mats that can easily smother grasses, low-growing shrubs, and small trees.
the smothering soft voices
the butter cream smothered the cake
The strawberries smothered in zabaglione which I had for dessert are summer itself distilled in a bowl.
Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
The pilots took it up to 1000-ft or so and released the fire retardant that smothered the fire and left only smoke trailing out.
They try to smother the flames with a damp blanket.
He smothered the baby with a pillow.
Fish wastes and unconsumed feed smother the sea floor beneath these farms, generating bacteria that consume oxygen vital to other sea life.
Live not in continual smother, but take some friends with whom to communicate.
The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
She smothered her creased skirts with her hands then pulled her matching, dusted rose pink gloves off and set them on a side table.
Potatoes are smothered in onions and garlic and the whole thing is slightly moist, yet oven-browned.
Most likely, that will involve placing the mats, called benthic barriers, on the sandy lake bottom to smother the clams. WBAY Action 2 News
The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives.
Smother the flames from the burning pan with a wet towel.
When that wasn't enough, he then smothered the man in makeup, a cumbersome costume, and ludicrous prosthetics.
With his back to goal and two defenders smothering him, he somehow manages to turn and make room for a shot, which he fires narrowly wide.
I reach across the table and fork off a chunk of gravy-smothered biscuit.
Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
The most popular theory is that a cloud of dust smothered the earth in a thick haze that would have blocked out the sun.
A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.
Charles Hamilton Sorley, a Great War poet, once wrote an achingly poignant poem about the ‘millions of mouthless dead’ whose individual identity had been smothered by their ubiquity.
To me, it looked like albino broccoli and no matter how much cheese you added to a steaming plate of it (because growing up that was the only way it was served — smothered in cheddar cheese), it felt like an imposter, a genetic mistake that no amount of dairy could improve. Archive 2007-10-01
Wrecked in 1912, it is smothered in marine life and is home to large numbers of wolf fish, whiting and cod.
Two doused him with a fire extinguisher and others smothered the flames. The Sun
And the other options are still likely to be fried, roasted, or fried and roasted, and smothered in cheesy or creamy sauce.
However Ann had noticed one of the day's specials, two boneless pork chops in apple sauce and smothered in melted cheddar cheese for £4.75.
The heat is transferred to the meat and any flames are smothered. Times, Sunday Times
She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops. The Sun
Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.
She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
Convocation preferred the blight of the coward Science to the cultivation of all that was beautiful, distinguished, humane, and brave; and they reaped as they had sown, they kept the dog smotherer and lost the radiant spirit and uplifting eloquence of the inspired seer. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
According to Diner’s Journal the meatballs are “slow braised in ragu, smothered in caciocavallo cheese, garnished with arugula and sandwiched between two squares of homemade potato-ricotta foccacia.” Mia Dona Launches Meatball Cart on Friday | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
To me, cooking is all about capturing the natural flavour of the food, not smothering it - clean, tasty, fresh food that looks great.
When they played the barcarole from Contes d'Hoffman everybody sang it and rose to their feet cheering the beautiful prima donna with whom the song was so closely identified, and who made one of a gay group at a flower-smothered table. The Common Law
Woman were crying with tears of joy as men swung their children around before giving them a smothering bear hug.
The squalls abated and visibility improved, the valley funnelling down to Osmotherley cleared of mist and we set off that way.
Last month more than 35,000 salmon died in the Klamath River, smothered by low flows and turgid waters.
It is shady, screened from view by rhododendrons., hydrangeas and tall ferns, with a groundcover of sweet woodruff that smothers all weeds.
For the past two games, the defensive backs have smothered opposing receivers, which in turn has helped the suddenly resurgent pass rush.
In a second "rosery" we were fairly smothered in sweets. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
And a little while after that, the storm passed, but it left the air uncleansed, and the heat as smothering as ever. EVERVILLE
They then insisted on throwing a house warming party, practically smothering us with the locals, who were all very nice.
Bobby ordered a bean-and-cheese burrito the size of a rolled-up gym towel, smothered in guacamole and sour cream.
Petroleum jelly, mayonnaise and mineral oil seem to smother live lice.
Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet. Finnegans Wake
But she quickly smothered the flames with a wet towel while shouting for help, a court heard. The Sun
The blasting is killin 'people - just smotherin' them to death through breathin 'all of the dust. Jeff Biggers: Mother Gunnoe: Mountaintop Removal Organizer Wins Goldman "Environmental Nobel" Prize
The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.
The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops. The Sun
Here's what it tastes like: Good pumpkin pie (sans crust) smothered in whipped cream.
It's an Oreo Brownie covered in soft-serve ice cream, smothered in marshmallow topping, hot fudge, and whipped cream, and sprinkled with crushed Oreo cookies.
Another pic sees her smothered in soapy lather to symbolise the need for face cream and sunscreen. The Sun
Smother the flames from the burning pan with a wet towel.
I went out of the meeting room; the atmosphere there smothered me.
I dare say Vicki is my favorite Housewife, despite her ogre-like bossiness and constant smothering. 'Real Housewives of O.C.' recap: The girls return | EW.com
Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
For some years there was an uneasy rapprochement with Richard, but in 1397 Gloucester was seized, at the king's orders, and taken to Calais, where he died, having apparently been smothered under a feather bed.
And that's basically saying, attitudinally, we want to side with our generation; we want to be where the Smothers Brothers are. 'The Uncensored Story' Of The Smothers Brothers
The mask was multi-layered and began with a smothering of vitamin H cream followed by a generous lathering of oil containing vitamins A, D and E.
Maybe some premonition -- some such smother at the heart as Hamlet knew -- came to him then, made him almost statue-like in his quiet and filled his face with a kind of tragical beauty. An Unpardonable Liar
The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.
It was his opinion that the injury was evidence of suffocation or smothering.
smother the meat in gravy
The next morning the sun finally drilled a tunnel through the smother of clouds that squatted on the plain so low I stooped when I got into my Bronco.
In autumn the grass is smothered with leaves.
He caught sight of a slop-shop where old clothes smothered the entrance with their mucid heaps.
Unless you're eating this ironically in a West London gastropub then the chances are your prawns are frozen shrimps bloated with sugar and salt water, then smothered in ketchup and mayonnaise.
The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
In early summer, the silvery foliage of snow-in-summer is smothered with white blossoms.
What more the skipper would have spoken remained unsaid, for _crack, crack, crack_! sounding smothered amongst the trees, came the reports of the rifles and the replies made by Don Ramon's vedettes as they were driven in, and the skipper's eyes flashed as he placed a little whistle to his lips and blew shrilly, bringing his own men together at the run. Fitz the Filibuster
But there was no aviation bureaucracy to stifle initiative and smother the life from our most wild and impractical dreams - an endangered species if there was one.
He wants you to die, you smotherer of pleasure, you denier of life, you withholder of joy. Irish Blogs
Since when is drowning everything in "EVOO", smothering foods in chicken stock, and putting any crap she can find from her fridge into a hamburger "healthy"? Rachel Ray - A Legend or a Hype?
I put my hand over her mouth, not hard enough to smother her, but firmly enough to give her the message not to speak.
Herbivores are quite important for the reef as they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
The smoke's usual acridness was smothered by the residue of the liquor in her throat. The Metrognome and other Stories
She orders a plate of seafood, but redeems herself by smothering everything with olive oil, and we get down to business.
The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops. The Sun
They include a single malt accompanied by beer and hot dogs smothered in cheese and onions — the franks in deference to my belief that politics is the most entertaining contact sport going. Politicos on the Home Front
smothering heat
It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
When they arrived, the 100 ft-long rockery was smothered by undergrowth and the Japanese acers were invisible to the eye.
There had been attempts to smother the fire, but it had caused it to only burn stronger than before.
The house was quiet except for the sobs she smothered against his chest.
We used a wet towel to smother the fire.
One way to smother a small fire is to cover it with a heavy blanket.
She fell for me fairly quickly, and frankly, for the first two months of our relationship, she was the pursuer and I often complained that I felt smothered and overwhelmed by her.
The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
She had heard that this smothered flames. CHARMED LIFE
A loud parp and subdued groan from a cubicle to my left highlighted the need for such smothering background noises.
Barrymore has the showier role and gives the more riveting performance, but that takes nothing away from Lange, who captures the smothering selfishness that was the flip side of Big Edie's determination to live life on her own terms. Lange, Barrymore captivate in HBO's 'Grey Gardens'
And he says there is a pending ecological disaster as the weed smothers river life.
Cosmos, path-smothering nasturtium, stiff autumn crocus and clumps of busy Lizzie were in full bloom.
Hoping to get a better idea of what the Hat has to offer, we selected a couple appetizers to start us off, choosing the pork drummy ($11.25), described as being two ham hocks slow cooked until the meat falls off the bone, smothered in a tangy barbeque sauce and served with their house coleslaw. Vue Weekly
The grassy slopes are criss-crossed with paths and, at weekends, smothered with people.
The killer smothered the victim with a pillow.
The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops. The Sun
If you prefer, you can broil them and then smother them with the sauce. MOON PASSAGE
The latest violence has smothered any remaining hopes for an early peace agreement.
Its provocative themes were smothered by a talky libretto that alternated between earnest exposition and sitcom jokes, set in smoothly tonal, insipid musical language.
But in the absence of intrepid investigative reporting and editorial courage, they smothered the audience in inconsequential material about the most consequential of topics.
Those fires have been fueled by a blistering heat wave that's smothering most of Europe.
Heavy brows converge into a huge beak of a nose which hovers over thick lips smothered by a huge moustache.
These latter qualities are often smothered by social convention and cultural prejudice which converge to constrain us from realising our full potential.
Lewanna imagined thin, crispy crust smothered in sweet yet savory tomato sauce, warm cheese, pepperoni, and succulent mushrooms.
The practicalities of the device have yet to be solved - who wants to go to a party smothered in electrodes and lugging a laptop about? Times, Sunday Times
There are also sundaes (hot fudge and strawberry) along with profiteroles smothered in fudge sauce, and a frosty root beer float.
These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months. Times, Sunday Times
There was a titter of laughter but we smothered it before it became a guffaw.
A giant dust storm, known as a haboob, smothered Phoenix, Arizona, in the US, last week. Weatherwatch: world round-up
The Dublin team was clearly psyched up in preparation for the early exchanges and a Paul Gibbons miscalculation presented them with a scoring opportunity that was smothered by Gavin Dowling.
Masses of leaves may begin to decay and smother the plant beneath them.
The fear is that if it has to borrow abroad to pay for this stuff, Japan will have to offer the gaijin ever-higher rates - which will smother the already weak economy.
How dreary it is always to be cast as the smotherer of desire, the hard-faced purveyor of the word "no". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The storm never let up , continuing to swallow everything with smothering force.
Not their beauty, not their particularity, just their smothering, deafening fecundity. SACRAMENT
However, there is a distinct difference between linzer cookies (like the ones you buy in the bakery with the powdered sugar) and linzer tortes, which are baked in a round cake pan, smothered in jelly, and latticed on top. LINZER TORTE
CHICKEN RETSINA Kotpoulo Retsinto meh Staflia page 224—Golden-brown pieces of sautéed chicken smothered in a sauce of resinated white wine and halved green grapes. The Summer of My Greek Tavérna
The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate. Do Customers Want What You're Selling?
In a trice, however, by the assistance of his female second, he was on his legs again, and grappling with his antagonist, endeavoured to tip him a fall, but instead of accomplishing his purpose, he received a cross-buttock, and the brewer throwing himself upon him as he fell, had well-nigh smothered him on the spot. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
You can hear wild fowl calling far up in the brumous smother which hides the lift. Patsy
Once ready, dampers can be smothered in butter, syrup or jam, or filled with a campfire sausage.
Three barges, smothered in floury dust, were being unloaded of their cargoes of powdered felspar by a multitude of coughing men, each guiding a little truck; the dust filled the place with a choking mist, and turned the electric glare yellow. When the Sleeper Wakes
From that time, she worked with all her might to "smother" her rival, enlisting the services of influential friends to persuade the managers not to give Christine an opportunity for a fresh triumph. The Phantom of the Opera
On top of that, a ladleful of the thick yellow sauce, smothering the rice underneath a creamy rich layer, the soft striped texture of the chicken showing through. The Kitchen Daughter
In some of Jame's fiction motive seems to smother event.
Still I was surrounded by women and smothered with affection.
But only in the last three years have they gotten dangerously high, fueling algae blooms that strangulate fish, smother the water in a putrid green-and-turquoise foam, clog boat engines, foul the air with rancid odors, and emit toxins that can cause permanent health problems in people. David Kirby: The Price of Cheap Meat: A Lake Dies in Ohio
Red Creek baked in a smother of dusty heat, the trees in the dry orchards, beside the dry roads, dropped circles of hot shadow on the clodded, rough earth. Sisters
It was claimed she had smothered baby Christopher at the family's home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and either did the same to Harry or shook him to death.
Scrape it onto your plate and use it to smother a dish of new potatoes - mountain food at its best.
Here is a world where the sun has been smothered by a sky of grey ash. Times, Sunday Times
This verse was particularly grim: ‘You are my true love, I want to smother your face with kisses.’
[[GLAD MIDSOMMAR!]] thursday: salt&vinegar crisps & lemon-tinged water rolled up in a stale headache-tortilla. smothered in non-profit-job-responsibility sauce with a hint of reluctant obedience. pre-stonewall gay documentaries as garnish. friday: [[proposed menu:]] a ramequin filled with moral-backslide. [to partake of the drink thursday's vow prohibits.] [[p.s. my lungs absofuckinglutely hate me.]] comments?? Pojken Diary Entry
Oh, and halon was banned for environmental reasons, not because it smothers people.
The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
It also may be an exercise in willpower thanks to the fatty toppings that smother your food.
The goalkeeper had to react quickly again to smother the dropped ball as Kevin Drinkell dashed in.
Imposed on this smothered realm was the refuse left by the French engineers, a moraine of abandoned military equipment. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Murtha smothered his rage, although I knew he would with pleasure have had us stuck up or blackjacked. The Ear in the Wall
Conversely, sorrow that was smothered in guilt tended to be a sort of glaucous hue.
The heat is transferred to the meat and any flames are smothered. Times, Sunday Times
These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months. Times, Sunday Times
The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.
Tara smothered a grin and pulled aside a stack of paperback spy novels to find a blue book titled promisingly enough: The Stargazer’s Catalog. Dark Oracle
Smothered in coal dust, we looked like the Black and White Minstrels, and the removal of our lab goggles just made us look even more ridiculous.
But apparently all that had been masking the real smell of the place, which was this smothering fungoid stench. COLDHEART CANYON
Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
Pastry shops are filled with delicate beauties, light-as-air genoise or flakey pastry sandwiching rich, luxurious creams and custards, smothered under glazes and ganaches or tiny glasses filled with something creamy, something fruity, intriguing layers of textures and flavors, complicated in the making and most complicated in the eating. Jamie Schler: When Simple Banana Bread Becomes Exotic (a recipe)
Don't put that cloth over the baby's face, you'll smother him!
She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
Spiders (Cyclops sp.) can smother young growing apices. Chapter 15
But she quickly smothered the flames with a wet towel while shouting for help, a court heard. The Sun
What confronted them was a complex device like a giant rat trap, but where the cheese should have been placed it was smothered with honey.
White was sorely tempted by the smothering move 1.Nf7 + winning the exchange, and played it.
bonnets smothered with flowers
On the contrary, she focused completely, almost smotheringly, on Ruth. Enchantment
This movement signals a departure from totalitarian politics in the country that have smothered civil life, made the state a facade and held society in checkmate with constant threats of civil war and external enemies.
Sue is my Dad's girlfriend, Sharon is her daughter, and the girls are her 13 year old Grandchildren that smother my Dad with kisses.
A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose.
Equally nonaggressive but more effective are roast chicken atop smothered leeks, and a meaty stack of portobellos topped by grilled radicchio and balsamic-bathed onions.
After a short time, it was discovered that the ship was thrown on a reef of rocks, and had bilged; and although the water entered her through the holes which the rocks had made, and filled her up to the lower beams, yet that it soon smothered, and, the bilge pieces keeping her upright, she lay comparatively quiet. The Wreck on the Andamans
When the plague raised its head again in 1944, it was smothered with DDT and sulfa drugs, therapies brought to Senegal as a result of the American military presence at the end of World War II.
But over protection and over direction can make loved ones feel smothered: relinquish top billing for a support role this week.
Following a pounding by incoming waves, coral reefs in shallow water were then raked by a powerful backwash carrying heavy debris, including trees and cars, then covered with smothering sediments.
A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.
But in order to try it you may have to stop wolfing the smothered pork chops and grits the person on your left is drooling over, or the curried goat with superb succotash that has made the friend on your right fall suddenly silent.
The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.
Excess nutrients from sewage or fertilizers flow into coastal waters, feeding algae blooms that block sunlight and smother corals.
The one thing, however, that stands out clearly is that _headache always means something_; that it should be promptly and thoroughly investigated with a view to finding and removing the cause, -- never as something which is to be cured as quickly as possible, as the police cure social discontent, by clubbing it over the head, with some narcotic or other symptom-smotherer. Preventable Diseases
The only argument was whether to have this scrummy little bun piled high with bacon for breakfast or to simply smother it with butter as a tasty mid-day treat.
The menu is filled with stylish comfort foods like liver and onions, wood-smoked pork chops, and shell steak smothered in crisps of pancetta.
Thanks to my dear mum (often referred to as Yeah-Smother instead of Yes, Mother) my pantry and freezer is stocked with a litany of epicurean failures.
But in order to try it you may have to stop wolfing the smothered pork chops and grits the person on your left is drooling over, or the curried goat with superb succotash that has made the friend on your right fall suddenly silent.
She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
Extinguish or smother the fire on the drapes with wet towels and water.
I had realized he was special then, but I smothered the feeling.
When, warmed by champagne, he had her all to himself, he unbosomed himself of his wrongs; of his smothered resentment against the new chef at the club; his worry over the house in The Man of Property
This was a clever tango, combining Argentine -- her ochos (stylized forward criss-cross steps) over his outstretched leg - with classical standard tango, but done in a humorous way that riffed on standard with the cartoonish Pepe le Peu-esque smotheringly cheek to cheek promenade runs and the ending slapstick dip which started out sexy until he "dropped" her, she rolling off his knee. Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Reaches a New High By Showcasing Alvin Ailey

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