Sentence examples for smothered out from inspiring English sources
All of the former service members involved with the company know that small businesses are an essential part of the American economy, and they aren't ready to see it be smothered out by the big name brands.
If a fire starts to catch and cannot be smothered out, quickly soak it with the water.
Mr de Kock had had him beaten with a snooker cue and smothered out of "pure rage".There are no apartheid politicians from the 1980s in jail.
She pointed to what the industry calls "black hat teams": anonymous authors who hire ghostwriters for a pittance, to churn out cheap novels en masse which are published under a pseudonym to "smother out competition" – and, in some cases, copying lines or entire scenes to get the job done.
Buyers who want their cars to waft along, smothering out the road's irregularities and keeping quiet about it.
It rides as if the tires aren't just smothering out the road's divots, but giving each of them a somber, dignified burial.
The sulfur rising from the ocean, smothering out the oxygen?
Always alert to language, Kilgallen began compiling ominous word lists: "smother," "black out," "keep dark," "far away," "underground," "underneath".
New York's natural areas continue to "survive and thrive" despite the city's "best efforts to smother them out," says Anzelone.
New Zealand's pursuit of 327 always looked a bridge too far but Johnson smothered them, nipping out danger men Jesse Ryder and Ross Taylor and keeping his foot on the gas.
