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Meanings of stifling in English
Usage of stifling in English
1
So many issues at the polls today across the country, stifling democracy.
2
We want to hear your examples of big data stifling workplace creativity.
3
The cold air in the railway van grows thicker and more stifling.
4
The bees and wasps circled busily around humming in the stifling atmosphere.
5
She felt herself stifling in the wagon and flung aside the covering.
6
And the taxi was not merely stifling; it was like a trap.
7
The smoke was stifling, and the pains of dissolution in my heart.
8
The stifling heat in the theater had proved too much for him.
9
The place was stifling, and the pen almost melted in his hand.
10
They were near the Line now, in the stifling heat of storms.
11
I think it's really stifling when schools have such a religious influence.
12
The sentence was pronounced by artificial light in a stifling poisonous atmosphere.
13
In the little rooms of communication between great rooms, it was stifling.
14
The sense of enclosure became stifling as the slope began to rise.
15
At last the stifling heat and vapour reached an almost intolerable pitch.
16
Pitar had never forgotten his stifling days in that airless nursery school.
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Stifling through the time
Stifling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common