Example Sentences

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Both defenses are smothering, but Tua Tagovailoa is a lot hotter than Taysom Hill.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021

They’re going all the way — The Vikings are tremendous on defense — from Anthony Barr to Xavier Rhodes to Harrison Smith, these guys are smothering.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2017

Unfortunately, as new students follow advice to pursue hot jobs, graduates have been pouring out of petroleum engineering programs just as declining oil prices are smothering new exploration.

From Time • Jun. 9, 2015

Instead, they will say, correctly, that they are smothering it with love!

From Forbes • Dec. 2, 2011

“Mind, mind, Tom,” whispered Aleck; “you are smothering him.”

From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Wood, Stanley L.