Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat.
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Examples for "suffocating "
Examples for "suffocating "
1 For Manchester City, the sense of history repeating itself must feel suffocating .
2 In summer, they are sultry and suffocating ; in winter, cold and dry.
3 You're suffocating , she said at a meeting yesterday for frustrated business owners.
4 London held nothing for her but suffocating memories she'd rather let go.
5 The place was suffocating , and the wind blew the alkali dust in.
1 Partick played a smothering game that at times imprisoned the Hearts players.
2 There is no crowding and smothering of the fruit by the foliage.
3 But no rain fell to ease the smothering oppression of the atmosphere.
4 He had to battle against the sense of smothering , the universe contracting.
5 She could not bear even the smothering thought of a divided kingdom.
1 Dark, and very cold-Tugby'salmost apoplectic reply was delicious, no doubt, in its suffocative delivery.
2 Vapour from Lobelia suffocative ; unwholesomness of perfumed hair-powder
3 In an instant the eyes were closed, the cries were stopped, and the breathing was suffocative and convulsed.
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