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Stifling
"Stifling" in a Sentence (15 examples)
A faultless plan is stifling, isn't it?
The heat is stifling to me.
The air is stifling.
In the stifling atmosphere, I can barely breath.
It's stifling hot today. There's no wind at all.
This is stifling proper economic development in Algeria.
Seeing the dress, she had trouble stifling a laugh.
She had trouble stifling a laugh when she saw the dress.
Wokeism is making the world too stifling.
Wealth hoarding is stifling economic growth.
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The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.
Who would go back to the stifling, wicked cities of civilized man when the mighty reaches of the great jungle offered peace and liberty? Not he.
Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.
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