suffocated

Example Sentences

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Suffocated, Lee says she needs to move out, that that was always inevitable.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2019

Suffocated by their various suburban home lives, three teenagers run away to build their own house in the woods, with “no parents, no one telling us what to do!”

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2017

So Dickson treks around to experience Shakespeare with Chinese characteristics — notably watching an up-to-date “Coriolanus” being performed in Beijing, with two local heavy-metal bands called Suffocated and Miserable Faith playing a noisy continuo.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2016

Suffocated and intimidated, in February 1965 dad bought a compass, binoculars, antibiotics, a few vials of caffeine, some cans of sardines, and a roll of salami.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2014

Suffocated with the rapid pounding of his heart, sick with horror at the impending vision he knew to be inevitable, he watched the shadowy figure slowly substantiate into the semblance of a living, breathing body.

From The Shadow of the East by Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude)