Sentence examples for through stifling from inspiring English sources

He smiles briefly at the image, but quickly falls back into grumbling about the government, which he warns is going to drive mom-and-pop operators like himself out of business through stifling new taxes.

JESSE McKINLEY -- You suffered through stifling July heat, torrential rain and day after day of "Total Request Live" fans screaming outside the MTV Studios [at Broadway and 45th Street].

He certainly didn't appear that hopeful on the course while careening and cursing his way through stifling humidity and startling mortality.

Human rights violations in neighbors' households may also indicate a high level exposure to militarization, and the mechanisms through which militarization may affect health, such as through stifling the economy, limiting access to fields or hospitals, or suppressing the health system, may also be present.

A fan attempts to break through the stifling mid-afternoon air.

It's an uncomfortably muggy evening but the band's glacial synths seem to cut through the stifling atmosphere.

On Saturday night, performing alone at City Winery and struggling through some stifling sound problems, she sang "The Littlest Birds," a pleasant folk song she used to perform with her old band, the Be Good Tanyas.

I then imagine under the sign an illustration of Ella Fitzgerald scatting inside a "No" symbol — a circle and a diagonal red line through the picture — stifling her singing "Bu di di bi bu bi dibi…" from "How High the Moon".

As Natalya, the social-climbing rube who tries to break through the sisters' stifling decorum, Anna Köhler (rejoining the company after an absence of nine years) provides the show with its emotional center.

The east coast is stifling through one of the worst heat waves on record.

To London's commuters, struggling through the summer in stifling carriages, the dispute is anything but symbolic.