Example Sentences

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Not at all, said the UK's Independent Newspaper, this record is "suffocatingly banal" and filled with "groan-inducing" lyrics.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024

One of the most suffocatingly beautiful stories ever written about 9/11 came two years after the attack when Tom Junod sought to track down the doomed man in the picture.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Higher education is suffocatingly expensive — my God, I wanted to cheer for something that provides a $50,000 scholarship to savvy young players from Wyoming or Louisiana.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018

Its creators have hewed suffocatingly close to the film’s story, gags and dialogue.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2018

All of this in his mind, of course, as he tossed in his bed, the sheet twisted around him like a shroud, suffocatingly.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier