Sentence examples for stifle on from inspiring English sources

When rivals seek to stifle, on trots Fàbregas to pick them apart while Kanté tears around tirelessly.

In taking a 28-3 lead into the fourth quarter, the Bears showed an ability to overwhelm on offense as much as stifle on defense.

It is like complimenting your younger brother after you stifle him in one-on-one again.

Kansas City was unstoppable on offense and stifling on defense in a 37-3 victoverover the playoff-bound Cincinnati Bengals.

The Wizards were stifled on the perimeter by Shumpert before he left and inside by Chandler, shooting 28 percent from the field.

Imagine: Texas was already stifling on defense, but what can this team achieve if Ash and this offense take a big step forward?

It partly explained why Giggs stopped doing interviews if it meant discussing the team and why his body language often looked so stifled on the bench.

Granted, the room was fairly cool, but they seem to breathe fairly well, so they shouldn't be too stifling on a hot day.

I did this because we all have issues that we care about most, but progress will be stifled on every big issue until we solve the threshold problem: big-money interests having disproportional clout in our public debates.

A large amount of self-reference (JPod, his last book, was full of people talking about Douglas Coupland novels; the new one, The Gum Thief, has sly nods back to Generation X) adds to the stifling, mirror-on-mirror effect.

It does not mean wholesale constitutional reform in less than a year.Nobody would want to stifle debate on changing the electoral system (on which Labour long ago promised a referendum).