Sentence examples for quickly stifled from inspiring English sources

I heard a throat being cleared somewhere in the crowd, and a cough quickly stifled.

But even those were quickly stifled by either Belfour or the Dallas backcheckers.

Yet these debates and arguments seem to be quickly stifled when they are brought up at headquarters.

Even Shirley showed signs of empathy on the way to a soldier's funeral, though she quickly stifled them with a flight of bible talk.

Occasionally, when he plays cards with his elderly mom or gives wildly inappropriate advice to the young son he dotes on, he shows traces of charm and humour but they are quickly stifled.

No surprise, then, that holography inspired artworks and a dedicated museum or that it was quickly stifled into bureaucratic forms, like the postage stamp, or sublimated onto the already addictive medium of the credit card.

But the poem quickly stifles its desperation in the prescribed comforts of noble sentiment and regular music.

"Lying awake at night worrying about cashflow can quickly stifle creative thinking" says Sarah Garrett, CEO of Square Peg Media.

And the characters don't so much vent their intense emotions as betray them through involuntary eruptions that they quickly stifle.

And the characters, who often speak in monologues, don't so much vent their intense emotions as betray them through involuntary eruptions that they quickly stifle.

A thumbwheel alternately controls scrolling and audio volume a bad design, as I discovered when the wheel was in the wrong mode to quickly stifle a deafening Web site.