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"Smother" in a Sentence (20 examples)
My sister likes to smother her toasts in butter.
Sami used a pillow to smother Layla.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Singapore's prime minister says severe air pollution caused by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia may continue to smother the city-state for weeks or months.
They tried to smother the flames with sand.
They planned to smother the flames quickly to prevent further damage.
He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth.
But I am Pestilence;—hither and thither I flit about, that I may slay and smother;— All lips which I have kissed must surely wither, But Death’s—if thou art he, we’ll go to work together!
[…] he dashes to his destination at such a speed that when he stops the horse half smothers him in a cloud of steam. "Unbear him half a moment to freshen him up, and I'll be back."
The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
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to smother a fire with ashes
The committee's report was smothered.
beefsteak smothered with onions
And I keep quite a lot of it around, especially chocolate-covered almonds and Trader Joes minipretzels smothered in dark chocolate.
She is smothered by the rope.
Emmanuel Adebayor's touch proved a fraction heavy as he guided Van der Vaart's exquisite long ball round John Ruddy, before the goalkeeper did well to smother Bale's shot from Modric's weighted pass.
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother […]
not to keep their suspicions in smother
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, / From tyrant duke unto tyrant brother.
Then we passed the Grand Opéra, at which our fine taste revolted; the Rue de la Paix, all in a smother with the dust caused by its improvement, at which our eyes naturally distilled water; […]
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