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Stifle
"Stifle" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Why do you stifle me so by complaining?
She tried to stifle a sneeze during the concert but she couldn't hold it back.
I had to stifle my anger in front of him.
High taxes stifle economic growth.
Sami stuffed a bag inside Layla's mouth to stifle her.
As the unkempt cashier lazily glanced back and forth between the fake ID and Tom’s face, Tom felt a sudden urge to pee as his nerves threatened to also stifle his breath right then and there. He was younger than the high school seniors that dragged him here, but he was easily mistaken for a grown man. It's not his fault that he was an early bloomer.
No amount of persecution can stifle the great striving of nations for a peaceful, creative life.
The deputy federal police commissioner says there is no truth to allegations that a new anti-terrorism law is being used to stifle political dissent.
The army seems to be very, very sensitive to any kind of criticism, and the new law they’re trying to bring in would completely stifle press freedom in the country.
Copyright laws stifle creativity.
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I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
And while her Hand the ſtreaming Blood oppos'd; / Join'd Face to Face, his Lips with hers ſhe clos'd. / Stifled with Kiſſes, a ſweet Death he dies; / She fills the Fields with undiſtinguiſh'd Cries: [...]
The heat was stifling the children.
The army stifled the rebellion.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
In fact, there was no suggestion of that, although Wolves deployed men behind the ball to stifle the league leaders in a first-half that proved very frustrating for City.
Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
This heat is stifling.
Nobody has shaved or changed clothes for a week, the heat stifles and the flies are everywhere. There is little water but we do not expect to be here long. This is not much of a letter, Jess. The mailbag goes down our trench once a day. I must finish because it stops for no one.
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