Sentence examples for of being suffocated from inspiring English sources

Our horror stories were not of being buried by Communists but of being suffocated by nomad ham sandwiches.

Another pair confessed that they had been haunted by nightmares of being suffocated by various metallic objects — doorknobs, fishhooks, and the like.

He was also held upside down and had water poured into his nose, giving him the feeling of being suffocated, Cheema said.

You had to have a special Kennedy press card to acquire the privilege of being suffocated in the ballroom, and no other credentials for a reporter would do.

She spoke of being "suffocated in that mausoleum of a house," but when her mother died, instead of feeling liberated, she was immobilized for weeks, barely eating, contemplating suicide and sleeping most of the day.

This runs counter to the myth put about by your predecessor that the secretary of state for education is a victim in the throes of being suffocated by "the blob".

In a neat twist on Hitchcock's "Rear Window," Thomas Kilbride, who has been crazy about maps since he was 6 years old, is obsessively poring over Whirl360, a computer program rather like Google Street View, when he fixates on the image of someone being suffocated while standing at a window in an apartment building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Meanwhile, Kathy is still feeling closed off, like a bunch of vegetables being suffocated by a carbohydrate.

Though everyone was a consenting adult, I felt uncomfortable—I can't stand violent movies, let alone someone in front of me being suffocated.

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"The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulation," began the accompanying article.