Sentence examples for suffocating pressure from inspiring English sources

Under suffocating pressure to justify her No. 1 ranking with a Grand Slam title, she suffered a lopsided defeat to Vera Zvonareva in the semifinals.

"I think people can look at us a little differently now that we've done what we've done in the last couple years," said defenseman Jake Muzzin, one of the young players who took on increased responsibility and handled suffocating pressure with impressive ease.

The suffocating, pressure defense unnerves opponents and can change a game radically in a few minutes, as North Carolina rudely discovered on Monday night.

I feel your suffocating pressure daily.

Although the guns fell silent in 2009, the government maintains a suffocating pressure on many Tamils.

The Kiwis were struggling to break out of their own half under suffocating pressure.

Further, suffocating pressures take many forms in students' lives, ranging from the pressures of "fitting in," to attempting to surpass others' accomplishments in what has become an increasingly competitive environment.

Off screen, Jeff's teenage son is dead, and he is suffocating from the pressure to soothe the public.

In August The Telegraph reported that half of UK nightclubs have closed in the last ten years; a week later VICE's Clive Martin reported on the gentrification of partying in London; Resident Advisor gave us a long-read in June about how iconic venues like The Arches in Glasgow are "suffocating under police pressure".

In some cities, the pressure is suffocating.

By that I mean it can waken us to truths about ourselves and our lives; truths that normally lie suffocated under the pressure of the 24-hour emergency zone called real life.