Sentence examples for it was stifling from inspiring English sources

It was stifling in the summer and frigid in winter, home to rodents and stinging insects.

On a recent Saturday, it was stifling hot and the caddies huddled under the umbrellas at the picnic table.

Recent debate over that question, they wrote, had become so vitriolic that it was "stifling productive discourse, inhibiting funding and halting progress".

The University of California, Berkeley has reinstated a controversial course examining Palestine "through the lens of settler colonialism" after facing intense backlash that it was stifling academic freedom.

We headed up to the auditorium and when we walked in it was stifling, so we instantly started worrying about the heat.

It was stifling in summer, freezing in winter, without gas, electricity, running water or proper insulation, and overrun by rats, but it became a haven for penniless artists from all over Europe.

23andMe has been leaning more on its research efforts since it was stifled in 2013 after being ordered by the Food and Drug Administration to cease sales of its personal genomics test.

At 6 p.m., equipment on the Rockaway Peninsula had been moved to Brooklyn and Far Rockaway, where it was stifled for hours after the flood surge.

McNamara's insistence that military personnel stick to the govt. line when discussing foreign policy in public forums, was expected to provoke a hot controversy, but it was stifled.

I certainly don't think it was all Dave Abbruzzese's fault that it was stifled".

There were so many operas by women, but then it was stifled and not allowed and the men came in again.