Sentence examples for barely stifle from inspiring English sources

The scouts, ever courteous and kind, could nonetheless barely stifle a collective groan.

I suddenly felt a wave of grief and could barely stifle the tears.

If the movie's horror effects lend "Everything Put Together" an aura of creepiness, the scenes that hurt most are those in which she runs into old friends who can barely stifle their panic as they seek to flee her contaminating presence.

The media man, hovering in the wings, could barely stifle his laughter.

That cultural moment when the entire country could barely stifle its collective mirth at the most #epicbanter of all time?

And when that never happened once, we could barely stifle our laughter in the quiet theater, because really, how else does one deal with such absurdity?

Brantley barely stifled his yawn over what he dismissed as lack of substance.

She plays the song's desperate show-business hopeful as a disingenuous kitten barely stifling her iron-willed ambition under a transparent pose of helplessness.

Convinced he'd torn an Achilles tendon, or shredded a knee, I barely stifled a shout of alarm, when suddenly I realized that he was capering for his fans.

Sorry, I was soon writhing in restrained (as in strait-jacketed) ecstasy as they blasted into "Summertime Blues", only the fourth time I'd ever heard them do that masterpiece of writing and arranging, barely stifling the urge to jump out of my seat while air-drumming along with Keith Moon.

If some of the plot details defy credibility, Romain Duris's electrifying performance makes you overlook any inconsistencies, as his likable character becomes a man on the run barely able to stifle his panic.