Sentence examples for instead of smothering from inspiring English sources

Instead of smothering the sale of illicit ivory, the spike in prices made poaching even more attractive.

Helen, instead of smothering Kevin with her pleasure at his emotional thawing, looks away from him and smiles as they drive off.

Zucchini fries were grease-free but crispy, and the accompanying sun-dried tomato and roasted garlic aioli somehow brought out the vegetable's taste instead of smothering it.

Instead of smothering a film in music and providing a catchy hummable theme (as per Tara's Theme from Gone with the Wind), Herrmann offered a series of evocative motifs in a cornucopia of music styles.

Instead of smothering it, the Pole's technique was askew and the ball trickled through his legs and despairingly into the net.

Instead of being smothered, the dismal verdicts of the daily press were bruited abroad as the terrified cries of reactionaries in retreat.

Instead of being smothered by nostalgia, viewers garner a few ideas for holiday meals and an acute longing to create, in their own homes, the warm and fuzzy feeling that the show exudes.

Instead of feeling smothered, the children receiving help were higher in life satisfaction and, surprisingly, strength of their own personal goals.

Nearly half (42.8%, n = 735) of smothering suicides involved chemicals or gasses.

Of the 34 records with discrepancies between the reviewer and algorithm, ten were related to hanging anchor points, ten were related to hanging means, and six were related to identification of smothering as a mechanism or means of smothering.

Ken Bradshaw's Torvald barely seems to know his wife's name, instead smothering her with endearments and referring to her as a "little bird", one imprisoned in a feathered nest of both his and her own making.