Sentence examples for stifling her from inspiring English sources

Is she crushing her daughter's spirit, stifling her self-expression?

The challenge, he added, was in guiding Ms. Koh without stifling her creative freedom.

"I wanted to make sure I was doing the right thing, to see if he was stifling her.

She plays the song's desperate show-business hopeful as a disingenuous kitten barely stifling her iron-willed ambition under a transparent pose of helplessness.

"I thought things were going so well lately, and in no way was he stifling her or coasting off her professional success as a corporate lawyer while he played Rock Band and hung out in manga chat rooms".

He must have taken her out of one of those houses — he owns half of them, anyway," she said, stifling her usual wry amusement at that sector of her husband's substantial family properties.

Had she not been the rare woman laboring in a patriarchal scientific establishment that limited her opportunities and stifled her talents, the triumph might well have been hers.

"She stifled her desire.

She stifled her crush.

But by doing so, Spiro had stifled her expressiveness.

She attempted to stifle her sobs, then pulsed with anger.