Sentence examples for stifled with from inspiring English sources

"I needed to know for the book whether you could be stifled with a pillow.

Competition among firms is stifled, with very high levels of concentration and high barriers to new entrants.

But success is also a powerful incentive, so employees need to be allowed to take risks and not be stifled with controls.

The only values now are cash values; the cities have been stifled with the arrival of the tower blocks; the heart has grown small.

And now she's at the pony's tail, And now is at the pony's head, On that side now, and now on this; And almost stifled with her bliss, A few sad tears does Betty shed.

The bones of the children are in a white marble sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with the inscription: "These brothers being confined in the Tower of London, and there stifled with pillows, were privately and meanly buried, by the order of their perfidious uncle Richard the Usurper".

Work in the mines — dark, cold and stifling with dust — can be lucrative for some.

In the opening scene of "The Pride," Alexi Kaye Campbell's seriously sentimental play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, two men meet for the first time at the house one shares with his wife, and the room is stifling with the heat of the unsaid.

Few doubt, however, that the real cause was a slew of incriminating audio and video recordings targeting the prime minister, his children and members of his cabinet.Many of the tapes were linked to the corruption probe that Mr Erdogan has been trying to stifle with new laws and reassigning thousands of judges and police chiefs said to be affiliated with Fethullah Gulen, a Sunni cleric.

Busoni thought that opera had stifled itself with conventional storytelling.

Rather than fostering entrepreneurship, the president has stifled it with red tape.