Sentence examples for getting stifled from inspiring English sources

And also to improve the quality of air that we and our children are breathing and to help unclog a city that is really getting stifled by the inability to get across town in the business day from one side to the other.

Yet even in Seoul, the integration of the hi-tech into urban life occasionally gets stifled: a 1999 law meant to standardise internet payment systems has forced South Koreans to use increasingly outdated web browsers, and economic protectionism (often under the banner of national security) tends to render international e-commerce sites useless, as well as mapping and ride-share applications.

Then, many of us got stifled and vowed to avoid criticism at all costs.

Because bad economic decisions have stifled growth, there is also a pervasive, even paranoid sense that "we haven't got what we were promised".

Without change we become stifled and stagnant.

They can sit through any amount of insupportable Hollywood dross or arthouse ramblings without ever being so ill-mannered as to use the b-word, but it's always sex that gets the ostentatious stifled-yawn treatment.

"I was just getting bumped around," Krauser said with a smile and a stifled giggle.

If they don't buy this stuff then they're not putting themselves in a situation where they could be chastised for getting it wrong that's a problem so creativity is stifled, if you like, by people who want to live within their comfort zone.

That unlovely gesture and my picture of his stifled, small-town life seemed so hopeless, that I thought rather grandly, "I am getting blown by the misery of the world".

When the sweat-stifled air got too much and Yiannopoulos took his cardigan off midway through his talk, an anguished groan rippled through the crowd.

"Once you've done something you need to get it out there otherwise you're all stifled".