smothering

How To Use smothering In A Sentence

• Without even asking Desdemona if it is true or not, Othello kills her by smothering her.
• As if to correct the one or the other, he thrust his tongue into the nacreous coils of her ear, smothering all the while her breasts with his hands, lest their rocking motion somehow interfere with the process of correction. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
• The day before had started with midsummer Louisiana predictability, so smotheringly hot that the spongy air seemed to push down on Suzette as she hurried to the cookhouse after church. Excerpt: Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Not their beauty, not their particularity, just their smothering, deafening fecundity. SACRAMENT
• Furthermore, logs provide persistent, exposed substrate where thalloid gametophytes can escape smothering by deciduous hardwood leaf litter.
• Removing or diminishing support now would be more akin to violently smothering someone in their sickbed than simply letting them die ‘gracefully.’
• The score samples the most beautiful, evocative measures from Bernard Herrman's Vertigo score, counterpointing its predecessor's smothering romanticism with its own spare original orchestration.
• Concerned to limit the smothering, Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks, whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms, which he would change as often as 10 times a day.
• Bending over, she shoveled ashes over the coals, smothering all light.
• Your official passion for evidence is gradually sapping your brilliant intellect and smothering your instincts.