Sentence examples similar to stifled scream from inspiring English sources

Sydney Corcoran, a teenager, remembered the way the smoke was so thick "you just hear the stifled screams of people you can't see".

The novel takes place entirely in a mental institution, where the narrator finds herself "dreading more and more the sound of the trolley and the stifled screams as it moved from room to room, nearer and nearer.

I was looking forward to having a classic "radio commentary in my ear at a wedding" time, all stifled screams and subtle fist pumps but instead I'm able to do my work and haven't disturbed the scene once.

It's like leaving a concert and having this ringing in your ears and everything is muffled and you just hear stifled screams of people.

And, with the code of silence she signed with a simple "okay" behind a mere bedroom door separating Sally from her fallen father, she's left with no one to hear her stifled adolescent scream.

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.

Technical achievements aside, Munch's success came from his ability to give visual form to the stifled passions of a stratified and sexually inhibited society: He let the scream out.

Chhiba said: "It's a screaming vagina within a space that once contained women and stifled women.

And it's safe to say that this is one of the best bookish experiences I've ever had! *stifled scream of excitement* I'll get to what I actually did in a sec, but FIRST: who is the new laureate?

He remained stifled, shy.

The feeling of being stifled and anxious.