smother

Example Sentences

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Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.

From Los Angeles Times

The challenge for policymakers, then, is to resist the temptation to smother AI with fear.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then she buried her head under a pillow, from which some sort of unidentifiable, repetitive, smothered sound—weeping? sneezing? giggling?—could be heard.

From Literature

Critics fear deep-sea mining will smother marine life with waste and the noise of heavy machinery will disrupt oceanic migrations.

From Barron's

I like the oven style chicken burrito smothered.

From Los Angeles Times