How To Use Suffocating In A Sentence

Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating.
I couldn't breathe, the fumes were suffocating me.
I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray.
It is ravaging the ecosystem because it consumes large quantities of oxygen, suffocating other marine life.
Sometimes she would wake at night unable to breathe, terrified she was suffocating.

This feels like improvisation, so naturally have they found the heart of the scores and the recording is excellent as well, close without suffocating the listener or the music, detail with air around it.
Economics risks suffocating architecture, but so does polite conservatism and a consumerist attitude.
The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
In his birthday address of 2004, Akihito seemed to suggest he was fed up with Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife criticising his eldest son for speaking in public earlier that year of the "suffocating atmosphere" in the royal household which he claimed had contributed to his wife's clinical depression. Emperor Akihito: A bulwark against a sea of troubles | Observer profile
It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.
To complete the whole, the windows were all closed and the air suffocating.
The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, suffocating.
Okay, I was on the brink of suffocating, and here they were fighting over who was going to give me mouth-to-mouth.
Trapped, suffocating, and every other clichéd word one can look up in the thesaurus to describe being stranded in this small terraced island in the Pacific.
Every issue has a cluster of stories that vary wildly in style and tone, from maundering musings to cold silence, from freehand swirls to suffocating realism.
It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
The air inside the pub was dense and suffocating, thick with sweat and laughter, jolliness engulfing and eating away at everything in the room.
So universally accepted were these notions that they became suffocating.
Yes, the country would still have to reschedule its suffocating debt.
One gruesome scene is shot behind an oppressive red filter, visually suffocating the viewer.
The film's grainy, bleak look is joined to suffocating dramatic situations in which the actors emote without restraint.
The Entire City is named after a Max Ernst painting, and Walling casts her metropolis as both comfort and threat; the safeness and succor of Concrete Mother becomes suffocating claustrophobia on Nest, with its suspense-filled percussion, and the war-like rush of the eponymous track becomes stark isolation on Changelings. Gazelle Twin: The Entire City – review
Between them, they have so eroded Kate's confidence and self-esteem that she is incapable of taking control of her own life, and she is trapped in an increasingly suffocating existence as she grows to adulthood.
The illness is key to the film's basic structure, careening between Hughes's high-flying grandiose business exploits and the suffocating rathole of his phobic hell.
We had gone a good distance on a dimly lit road when a strong, foul and suffocating odour swarmed into and around our car.
She shivered as their chilled breath filled the air, suffocating her with its putrid weight.
With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.
Exhaust fumes from cars and factories make for a toxic, suffocating smog that hangs over the city.
Each small change is difficult to argue against but the overall effect is suffocating for the people we then expect to provide a decent public service.
When I see her in these moods there's this very satiable feeling of hopelessness, helplessness and this suffocating feeling of needing to be helped. Indiankurtis Diary Entry
The muggy, early-September night had descended on the suburban neighborhood, suffocating and heavy.
Mr. Reid, has any physician accused you of suffocating the child to bring about a seizure or apneic episode? Cruel Deception
The further I sunk into that hole, the deeper I went into my dreamworld, until I felt as if I was suffocating, maybe drowning, and I tried to wake myself.
Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.
What one generation considers the very definition of success - a steady job and a roof over one's head - the next often finds constricting, if not suffocating.
It is the same for the Sydney Olympics, where she is the suffocating favourite to win the 400m.
She told the investigator the scratches might be a result of Michael's attempt to stop his mother from suffocating him. Cruel Deception
Due to awkward sexual awakenings and a suffocating family life, Rita is a ticking time-bomb.
The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives.
In the winter dampness, the smell of the mule dung and the mangoes was suffocating.
Almost suffocating under the oppression of repressed feelings, using art only to repeat and rehearse for himself his own internal tragedy, after having wearied emotion, he began to subtilize it. Life of Chopin
Stack has a stack the operating pressure I was almost suffocating.
At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page. 2008 November 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
And so the novel charts Polly’s slow, painful extrication from the suffocating coils of family happiness, or at least from the kind of picture-book happiness that she, and she alone, is expected to produce with unfailing perfection. Family Happiness « Tales from the Reading Room
If they domineer to the point of suffocating you, stay away. Deepak Chopra: How to Deal With Difficult (Even Impossible) People
Smoke hung thickly all around, like a dense fog, only more suffocating.
Caked in cracked dirt and seeping sweat, crawling on all fours, suffocating from the heat, and trying to avoid startled lizards and bats, I cannot help but feel that I am glad they widened the tunnels for us.
The book tells the story of a woman escaping from a suffocating marriage.
That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room.
But the nickel disappearance is one more clue about how the planet went from suffocating to a place where a terrestrial tetrapod could take a deep breath.
Shen Congwen indeed liked to write of escape from the suffocating embrace of the family.
The loneliness that had been pervading my life and slowly suffocating me was now lifting, and I could breathe freely again.
Decadence, depression, depressed. Or taste a little suffocating.
Tom is a quick-witted, but self-absorbed fantasiser who, due to the suffocating mall atmosphere, is beginning to hallucinate.
But the cosmonaut was a woman, a fact that Kinsman did not know until he had pulled the airhose out of her helmet, suffocating her. Ten Minutes, That's It
Exhaust fumes from cars and factories make for a toxic, suffocating smog that hangs over the city.
Few people like to cause offence, particularly in business, which suffers from a suffocating politeness.
We will arrive in June, after the simoon, a suffocating wind that blows across the desert. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
It engulfs its prey by encasing it in a suffocating plasma-like substance.
Shooting guard Kirk Penney was again exceptional for the Tall Blacks, leading their scoring with 27 points despite suffocating attention from the Boomers' defence. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Mamarrosa is also suffocating, a sun-baked place where the sky is ‘so blue it hurts’, the peaches on the sagging trees are rotten and cork prices are falling.
The air was suffocating to white lungs, what with human emanations combined with the thick fumes of kinnikinic. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest
She looked down at Spitz whose respiration was so ragged that she sounded like she was suffocating slowly.
It felt like I was suffocating, like someone had taken a firm grasp around my throat and wasn't thinking about letting go anytime soon.
It's hot and suffocating. I think it's going to rain.
But the cosmonaut was a woman, a fact that Kinsman did not know until he had pulled the airhose out of her helmet, suffocating her. Ten Minutes, That's It
By presuming that no intelligent political life exists outside their hermetic space, the party ensured that theirs will be a small and suffocating house.
As a public figure, she had to endure suffocating publicity.
The agency also places suffocating constrictions on the press vis-à-vis the Imperial Family.
Shen Congwen indeed liked to write of escape from the suffocating embrace of the family.
The heat was tolerable at night but suffocating during the day.
"I'm suffocating," she pants.
Thirty minutes after the Limited rolled out of the terminal Detectives Johnson and Goldberg, attired as North Country backwoodsmen and lugging battered suitcases, swaggered behind Lizbet into the smoking car of a sooty, suffocating all-coach local-express entitled laughingly in the timetables The Snowball. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
I didn't cut, I picked and scratched at my hands, worrying a spot between my thumb an index finger until it bled or until it hurt so much it broke through the suffocating aversiveness and let me think about something else. Serendip's Exchange -
But in the end, the game stood as a testament to the dangers of relying on clutch goalkicking and a suffocating defense in the modern game. Age Of Open Rugby Has Arrived
The continued theme of constriction continues with the suggestion of a suffocating atmosphere in the thin air of high altitude, and the longing for a return to the previous life and the friends below.
There are no perspiring throngs of Brits packing suffocating beaches.
He brought up what he called an atrocity: the case of Isa Mohammed Ali, 71, who he said died after suffocating on tear gas. TIME.com: Top Stories
In her work she constructs a world that is airless and suffocating.
The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
He threw himself back in suffocating agony and began to claw desperately at his throat.
It's hot and suffocating. I think it's going to rain.
By the 1980s, political life was suffocating and the political system had ossified.
Beyond New York's financial advantage, the appeal to Asian buyers includes a large Chinese-speaking community in Manhattan and in the outer boroughs, as well as a lack of suffocating pollution.
Sunday, August 08, 2010 environmental news stories sunday more stories you probably won't hear the white middle age dudes talk about on the sunday morning yacking shows. pollution reaches new high as smog smothers moscow. - a suffocating smog from wildfires hung over the russian capital on saturday, raising the concentration of dangerous pollutants to a new high as residents donned masks and dozens of flights were delayed at the city's airports - london independent russians seek shelter as fires rage out of control. - pollution from peat and forest fires raging around moscow surged to new highs on saturday as muscovites continued to flee the choking smog that has shrouded the city. - london financial times huge ice sheet breaks from greenland glacier. - a giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km has broken off a glacier in greenland, according to researchers at a us university - bbc southern michigan faces long recovery after oil spill. - the kalamazoo river disaster is historic in its own right, even if it only registers Skippy the bush kangaroo
I don't mean only to myself; it's frequently obvious that my charm exhausts and bewilders others, even as they depend upon it to mortar crevices in the social facade -- to fill vacant seats, give air to suffocating silences, fudge unease. The Reading Experience
The man kindled it and in the next moments the fresh and sweet air fulfilled with deep and suffocating smoke and scent of burning flesh.
Others will find the level of smarm suffocating, as every plot twist occasions a self-conscious musical outbreak, with the characters tunelessly expressing every little thought in their heads in song.
The climbers reach the peak after much struggle, but as they make their way back down, the weather closes in with suffocating intensity.
The spiracles, or breathing holes, which normally are able to repel water, are entered by the "wetter" water, suffocating the bee. 9: Domestic animals
It's not just the stats of the Jets cornerback (31 passes defensed, six INTs, one returned for a TD) that elevate him, it's the suffocating coverage he delivered against some of the best receivers in the NFL this season. Jets' Darrelle Revis wins USA TODAY's top defensive honor
The most pervasive environmental threat comes from mining dust, a suffocating rust-coloured cloud of debris that coats everything in and around the mining triangle.
Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, breathless in the suffocating heat.
He felt like he was suffocating under his father's oppression.
More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating.
One gets the sense that he finds the Western episteme constraining, if not suffocating, in its insistence upon the ideological hold and closure of meaning.
But the nickel disappearance is one more clue about how the planet went from suffocating to a place where a terrestrial tetrapod could take a deep breath.
Suffocating, I crane my head above the crowd, gasping for air but taking in only steaming sweat and fumes of scotch.
She tried to cry out as twisted metal and glass bit into her back, but his weight was suffocating.
Scheele described the chlorine gas formed as having a greenish yellow color and a suffocating odor ‘most oppressive to the lungs.’
What to say, given this suffocating augustness, that would rock the joint? Mark Twain
The snobbishness of Conversazione Snobs is very soon disposed of: as soon as that cup of washy bohea is handed to you in the tea-room; or the muddy remnant of ice that you grasp in the suffocating scuffle of the assembly upstairs. The Book of Snobs
Another major bee pest is the tracheal mite, which gets inside adult bees and clogs their breathing tubes, essentially suffocating the insects.
You will remember that we accidentally killed the original tree, a sumach, by suffocating the roots with a mixture of rotting logs and sunflower husks.
Although Paulette is suffocating under his egotism, there is a great scene in which she watches the great man at work and is entranced by his handiness with a brush and paint.
Many prisoners, suffocating under the oppressive heat, fainted.
He had to keep his arms free as he needed them to keep the snake from suffocating him.
As a public figure, she had to endure suffocating publicity.
He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance ... and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the ‘disgust for life,’ taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force. The Torrents of Spring
The pregnant silence is almost eerie as it spreads round the room, reaching every corner, suffocating me as I inhale its intoxicating deadliness.
In the opinion of these writers, sleepers in stuffy rooms were slowly suffocating in a toxic fog of their own breath, sweat, and flatulence.
This remarkable evocation of childhood is set in an Italian hamlet during the hottest summer on record - the suffocating heat a perfect backdrop to the claustrophobic tension of the story.
Then black smoke and heat coiled around him in a thick, suffocating cloud until he choked and woke to the world.
Perhaps there are men or women of secret visionary ability in there, suffocating beneath the weight of mediocre debate and petty parochial feuding.
To this part of the yards came all the "tankage" and the waste products of all sorts; here they dried out the bones, -- and in suffocating cellars where the daylight never came you might see men and women and children bending over whirling machines and sawing bits of bone into all sorts of shapes, breathing their lungs full of the fine dust, and doomed to die, every one of them, within a certain definite time. The Jungle
His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth.
The air was close and suffocating in the black car, as she drove aimlessly down the interstate, trying to flee from all her memories and the life that was sucking all the wants and needs from her that once made her happy.
The thinner air tricks your body into thinking it is suffocating, and so you wake up periodically gasping desperately for breath.
When Logan got off the plane he was completely stifled by the suffocating heat of Michigan.
The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
His legs had become trapped and the equipment was suffocating him.
Her small purse draped over her right shoulder, her light blue shirt hugged at her slender figure and her jeans looked like they were suffocating her legs.
The most pervasive environmental threat comes from mining dust, a suffocating rust-coloured cloud of debris that coats everything in and around the mining triangle.
At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
The shapechanger's body had been enveloped by the force suffocating the planet.
About ten people a year in the UK die from suffocating after having an allergic reaction to something they ate.
What Maryna is leaving behind is not obscurity but an oppressive, suffocating fame; not poverty but tiresome social privilege.
He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village
When Logan got off the plane he was completely stifled by the suffocating heat of Michigan.
Their stench was suffocating at close range, and the ground trembled beneath each thunderous footstep.
More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating.
At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Although, the holes in the watery Wicklow defence were initially plugged, the problem of their inability to create scoreable chances was still suffocating their performance.
An aching in my chest, so intense, so powerful and paralysing: I was suffocating, couldn't breathe, smoke was filling my mouth.
The book tells the story of a woman escaping from a suffocating marriage.
The trip was uneventful as he was used to the drowning sounds of the crowd, the beeping horns of vehicles and cell-phones, to the suffocating smoggy air.
In other words, he used common sense to deconstruct rhetorical falsehoods, pulling apart the suffocating mesh of collectivist lies one carefully observed thread at a time.
Kids today are rarely allowed to follow their imaginations outdoors without close, almost suffocating, supervision.
The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating
The book tells the story of a woman escaping from a suffocating marriage.
It was suffocating to sit between those merit was like being a fox in a bog while hounds crooned on either bank.
It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.
Erik Stanley , of Middletown, N.J., used excessive force when he subdued Jawara Henry on Dec. 4, 2010, at the South Beach Psychiatric Center, suffocating the patient with pressure on his neck and torso, Staten Island prosecutors said. Supervisor Is Charged in Death of Patient
Beyond New York's financial advantage, the appeal to Asian buyers includes a large Chinese-speaking community in Manhattan and in the outer boroughs, as well as a lack of suffocating pollution.
An electrical wire located on the far end of the n-type layer gathers the suffocating electrons and shepherds them back across. Solar energy offers a vast supply of power, but harnessing it is a challenge

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