Example Sentences

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The three-month lockdown, from which Britain is only now gingerly emerging, has suffocated the economy and left many of the people who are demonstrating furloughed and uncertain about the future.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2020

The worst case is that your computer will no longer boot because your OS has suffocated to death.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018

More often than not, it has suffocated USC’s offense in team run drills.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2016

“It’s like Paris Saint-Germain in the French soccer championship,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme said, referring to the Qatari-backed club that has suffocated Ligue 1 for four straight titles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 24, 2016

The surrounding ground has been cleared for agricultural purposes, and the earth, broken up by ploughing, has been washed into these estuaries, and has suffocated, as it were, the oysters in their natural position.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.