Sentence examples for stifling smoke from inspiring English sources
To the south, the Rough fire burning in the Sequoia National Forest was reported to be 40% contained, but it already has devoured 211 square miles and filled the San Joaquin Valley with stifling smoke.
Almost all of those who died, but who had managed to survive the crashing debris, are thought to have suffocated in the stifling smoke and ash.
INSIDE PITCH The night was already stifling before a trash fire between the inner and outer walls of Shea Stadium sent gray smoke billowing into the stands in the third inning just before 8 p.m.
Add to that the exhaust of vehicles, the effluence of industrial plants, the occasional sandstorm and the smoke drifting in from some of Arizona's routine summer wildfires, and the air, already stifling, can be almost unbearable.
The mediocrity is stifling.
LONDON — Can beauty be stifling?
Marseille is less stifling.
"France was stifling me".
It became quite stifling.
The conditions were stifling.
