Sentence examples for suffocating air from inspiring English sources

The word seemed to cut through the shafts of suffocating air between us.

During one restless night, tormented by the suffocating air of Clive's decaying country seat, Maurice yearns to become fully invisible to a society that can only ever partially see him.

Charlie Stratton, who directed Bell's play on stage in LA, paints 19th-century Paris as a torpid dung-hole in which the suffocating air of death (Matt Lucas's bewigged Olivier literally stinks of the morgue) is alleviated only by the spark of lust – a rare bright spot amid darkened evenings of dominoes and overtight corsets.

Smatterings of tourists and locals stroll around the city's waterfront, enjoying a cityscape free from the maladies that haunt other Chinese metropolises: suffocating air pollution, constant traffic gridlock and crushing crowds on public transportation.

It will be difficult to win two straight against a Spurs team accustomed to the suffocating air of the playoffs".

In fact, what was truly obscene was the suffocating air of prissy evasions, euphemisms and willed forgetfulness.

As a child raised Catholic and a mature adult who chose to leave that tradition, I find myself cheering Pope Francis in his attempts to breathe fresh air into the suffocating atmosphere that surrounds him at the Vatican.

This good cheer about the dismaying ritual of herding, shuffling, squeezing, starving, sitting and suffocating that characterizes air travel today?

But Littell's approach, over the course of 894 pages, is so overwhelmingly all-inclusive that the effect soon becomes as suffocating as the air in the old Potsdamer Platz U-Bahn station.

Turns out I had ruptured my stomach in the spelunking fall, and the chest and shoulder pain I felt was me slowly suffocating on the air from my stomach.

As he was about to touch down, he realized he had only a few seconds' supply of air before suffocating; the suit had indeed proved to be hermetically closed.