Sentence examples for were being smothered from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Phongthep said Thai students were being smothered by it, and the schools' report card shows room for improvement.

Sufferers felt they were being smothered or suffocated; and, though more or less conscious, they could neither move nor speak.

"The only thing I didn't like," the young blond woman said, "was the way the mannequins' heads were wrapped up in stockings, as though they were being smothered".

The conference was sparked by a sense of dismay over what has happened to the U.S. economy over the past several years and a feeling that constructive ideas about solutions were being smothered by an obsessive focus on the short-term in this society, and by the chronic dysfunction and hyperpartisanship in much of the government.

All over the world, the freedom to write about powerful groups is being smothered.

9th over: England 50-2 (target 149; Wright 16, Morgan 6) England are being smothered by spin.

My body's struggling to survive, and I'm fighting to breathe because I'm being smothered.

With so many inferior products available, American gardens are being smothered by a blanket of bad — and ugly — mulch.

He discovered that the music, and his own voice as an artist, was being smothered by his need to win.

Paul Kellogg, who ran City Opera for 11 years and retired in 2007, repeatedly argued that it was being smothered at Lincoln Center and literally overshadowed by the Metropolitan Opera.

Professional journalists who cost money to employ are being smothered by amateurs who are already employed gainfully elsewhere and will chat about what they saw for nothing.