Sentence examples for smother itself from inspiring English sources

It'll smother itself if I drop it in the food bag.

He will be blissfully unbothered by your snaps, you'll eventually notice that your snaps have gone unreciprocated, and the whole matter will quietly smother itself).

"Otherwise, it risks smothering itself," she said.

"Albertine," although working harder and deeper, smothers itself as it suggests successive layers of alternative unreality and immediately annuls them.

In the spring a large weeping cherry in front of the deck smothers itself in pink blossoms.

On a similar scale, H. quercifolia has similar though less ostentatious flowers, with the bonus of rich autumn colour, and H. arborescens 'Annabelle' smothers itself with pompoms of pure white.

A Portuguese island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Madeira adds flavor to its Mediterranean seasonings by smothering itself in booze, soaking in year-round warm weather and setting it all ablaze with the world's greatest fireworks show.

Erdoğan, who was elected Turkey's president in 2014, has taken a page from Vladimir Putin's playbook, using democratic institutions to legitimize his rule while crushing his opponents, with an eye to ultimately smothering democracy itself.

It smothers bushes, wraps itself around poles and squeezes trees to death.

Context in criticism is vital, but in this case it's smothering the content itself.

Since the last big anti-Chinese riots in Tibet two decades ago, Beijing has sought to smother Tibetan separatism by sparking economic development and by inserting itself into the metaphysics of Tibetan Buddhism.