Sentence examples for a smother from inspiring English sources

Once from a distance he saw two men working a pit sawmill, the top man bending and rising like an automaton, the man below in a smother of woolly sawdust.

Phineas makes his entrance all a-smother beneath his poststructuralist graduate dissertation.

"One went to a Smothers Brother, another to a Jefferson Airplane member," Hall says.

The gesture is tender and aggressive, an embrace and a smothering.

Every small new government program puts us on the slippery slope toward a smothering nanny state.

Yet the pervasiveness and lack of accountability of the security apparatus has had a smothering effect.

Fried Malpeque oysters benefited richly from a smothering of creamed spinach and lobster béarnaise.

She stayed his hand and drew him, yanked him, into a smothering kiss.

So you can view this as a classic matchup of a great offense versus a smothering defense.

Mr. Butler narrowly survived a smothering hold-down by four successive waves, an incident Mr. Mel called "the real deal".

The Jets once boasted a smothering defense and a dominant rushing attack, but they do not anymore.