smothered

Example Sentences

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Meaning: Do you want your dish smothered in sauce made from roasted green chiles, or a simmered counterpart fashioned from dried red chile pods?

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

It wouldn’t be easy, but he knew the products well: He had grown up eating hot dogs smothered in Heinz ketchup at Yankees games as a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Of course, the barbershop, where ball talk is real talk, and where the expectations around the Dodgers upcoming quest for a three-peat recently smothered me like a hot towel to the head.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

A streetwise Scotland smothered France in defence and ran them through in attack, at one point stretching their lead to a scarcely credible 33 points.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Her brother sat opposite her with his back to the door devouring hunks of bread smothered with a mixture of peanut-butter and strawberry jam.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl