Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat.
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For Manchester City, the sense of history repeating itself must feel suffocating.
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In summer, they are sultry and suffocating; in winter, cold and dry.
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You're suffocating, she said at a meeting yesterday for frustrated business owners.
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London held nothing for her but suffocating memories she'd rather let go.
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The place was suffocating, and the wind blew the alkali dust in.
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The atmosphere is intolerant now; the risk is it may become suffocating.
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But far from sustaining them, their success was starting to feel suffocating.
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The immigration court system, already suffocating under a backlog, is largely shuttered.
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I am suffocating here; I want to get into the open air.
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The dust, the smoke, and the stench of the powder were suffocating.
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I was suffocating and needed air; I was nauseous, light-headed almost disorientated.
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He'd had his fun, and generals have a way of suffocating parties.
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And she was suffocating with the nauseous sweetness of the bridal flowers.
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These conditions are suffocating to breadth and to real art in poetry.
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The heat now was intense, and the smoke was blinding and suffocating.
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All the heavens seemed ablaze, and the clouds of smoke were suffocating.
