Sentence examples for suffocated from inspiring English sources
The word "suffocated" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that means to deprive of oxygen or to experience difficulty in breathing due to lack of fresh air. For example: "The boat's occupants quickly suffocated from fumes leaking into the cabin."
Ratmansky believes he has discovered a life and energy in Petipa's choreography that's been suffocated over time.
But there are an awful lot of colleagues – I'm not talking about Lib Dems, it's people of all parties – who seem frustrated by the direction of travel, who are a bit suffocated by the process of party politics.
He felt suffocated by village life and the ruling hand of his overbearing father.
Gas could, indeed, prove fatal: graveyard workers who broke into bloated coffins were occasionally suffocated by the release of "cadaverous vapours".
In the most notorious case, in 2004, around 80 Muslim protesters were suffocated after being crammed into trucks by the army.
The media is suffocated by self-censorship more than by the Kremlin's pressure.
The new, tentative freedoms have given hope to people intellectuals, women, the young who felt suffocated by the Islamic republic's ideological, self-righteous years.
In the early 20th century, embryonic globalisation was suffocated not by economics but by politics; and the consequence was the bloodiest century the world has ever known.
Last month Chicago Magazine reported that it knew of ten people who were "beaten, burned, suffocated or shot to death in 2013" who were not included in the official count for "at best, unclear reasons".
But they particularly hurt investors that levered up in the good times and now have to keep creditors at bay.Crushing debts suffocated Babcock & Brown, an Australian investor that went into voluntary administration in March.
He was "half-suffocated, savagely beaten, half-starved and then fed contaminated food" for opposing the ruling junta ("Paying the price", February 13th).
