They couldn't put him in the walk-in refrigerator; he would freeze or smother to death.

You don't smother to death in a locked vehicle?

She would rather bury herself in the earth and smother to death than be caught by him.

So completely tucked in is he that it is a mystery why he does not smother to death.

He had awakened with a sudden disagreeable conviction that people have been known to smother to death in closets.

The acute reality of smothering to death settles in with cold certainty.

He was either choked or smothered to death, or else he was poisoned.

People being smothered to death will generally thrash like hell, knock things over

Becky suffered more than 40 injuries before she was smothered to death by Matthews.

It was referred to the Committee on Constitutional Amendments, where it was smothered to death.

A retired postmaster may have been smothered to death by a burglar, it emerged last night.

Poor Tom will be half smothered to death!

There is no power for the air regenerators and within twenty hours we will start smothering to death.

"How could they possibly cook in here without being smothered to death?"

"Whatever comes, I ain't going to be smothered to death, Car'line Holland."

At another time it was said I had gone stark mad, and had been smothered to death between two beds.