smother
Example Sentences
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Retreating to a personal Walden, he suggests, may smother creativity rather than fuel it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Critics fear deep-sea mining will smother marine life with waste and the noise of heavy machinery will disrupt oceanic migrations.
From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025
Rising land prices smother our ability to move, suppress fertility rates, stifle innovation, and hoover up resources that might be deployed elsewhere.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025
I yelled for Joyce to grab a fire extinguisher and ripped off my towel to smother the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
And I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing smother
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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