suffocate

“Take advantage of the time you have ahead of you to understand risk better. Don’t suffocate your portfolio” by allocating too much for income-based investments.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Their breath was believed to poison the air and suffocate the land, especially in swampy regions where disease was common.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

Western powers have imposed increasingly severe sanctions to suffocate the smuggling network, but Wednesday’s action—the latest in a recent string of assaults against the shadow fleet—demonstrates a more decisive approach to stamping it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024

There are moments that I feel like I might suffocate, as if all my insides are tied into a tight little ball.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

He has been accused of being a merchant of negativity throughout his managerial career, a coach whose football suffocates rather than inspires.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

However, if there is too much calcium, the mitochondrial processes become unbalanced and the cell suffocates.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

In Los Angeles County alone, a baby suffocates nearly every week while sleeping, according to the infant safe sleep campaign from the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

"The increase in the cost of living suffocates workers and jeopardises the well-being and comfort of their families."

From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2023

There is a new air in our conversations, short and choppy, so hot that the effort suffocates us both.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

If these were suffocated by crude oil, "the consequences can be enormous to all species," Rosenstrom added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Rodri: Outstanding performance by the Spain captain as France were suffocated and La Roja's midfield dominated their opponents from start to finish.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“I feel suffocated and breathless when it is too hot,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

"Around 9 pm, I was feeling suffocated and nostalgic, so I got in the car to drive around town," a 28-year-old woman told AFP on Monday on condition that her identity be protected.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

I walked fast through the room: I stopped, half suffocated with the thoughts that rose faster than I could receive, comprehend, settle them:—thoughts of what might, could, would, and should be, and that ere long.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Last time a marine heatwave hit South Australia and Tasmania, there were starving penguins, fish kills, suffocating algae outbreaks, and jellyfish invasions.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

And maybe it was the focus-sapping heat, but USC’s defense wasn’t as stifling, not as suffocating it should have been against an opponent as hopelessly overmatched as San José State.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Carolina Hurricanes win their first Stanley Cup championship in 20 years, using a suffocating defense in Game 6 to shut down the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The hopes of finding them alive were fading fast, since people can survive only so long trapped beneath the rubble without water while inhaling suffocating dust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

He knew it would be water, not air, that would flood in, and yet his whole body was one suffocating urge to inhale.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo