Example Sentences

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"Waiting for his decision has been suffocating," complains a top moneyman for another campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have had an exceedingly hot day, and the dust has been suffocating.

From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell