Sentence examples for the smothering from inspiring English sources
verb
To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
Resist the smothering social.
Was it the smothering 96-degree heat?
And the one irreplaceable part of the Steelers, the smothering defense of LeBeau, did not relocate to the desert.
In the age of the smothering midfield — using not one but two defensive midfield players is the new, new thing here — Maradona is having none of it.
For example, projects with potential should be rapidly hived off into independent business units, away from the smothering influence of the status quo.
The meat lacks the richness of flavor needed to throw off the smothering embrace of nuts, raisins, cinnamon and confectioners' sugar.
Stafford hates the smothering effect of social norms; she spends her career inventing alternatives to cocktail parties and the (sexist and racist) rules of the game.
Despite this benefit, the joint-venture factory in California has shown that GM's fundamental weaknesses remain.Saturn is to be run as a separate company within GM, free of the smothering embrace of Detroit.
Absent the smothering smoke, soot and cinders, the depot could be expanded on the same footprint by delivering trains to platforms on two levels, the lower for suburban commuters and the upper for long-distance trains.
Besides the smothering impact of the expenses affair, that disjuncture may reflect a widespread conviction that government is essentially managerial; that the choice is between people rather than ideologies.
And Mr Correa has largely eschewed the expropriations of private companies and the smothering economic controls practised by Mr Chávez.Mr Correa says that he plans to carry on governing in the same way.
