Example Sentences

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Bartscherer’s poetic and slim story follows a couple, Tasha and Andre, through the seasons, a vague timeline guided more by mood than chronology: fresh, promising spring; pleasantly lethargic summer; suddenly shifting autumn; suffocatingly glacial winter.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

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

He comes unstuck, though, on Sandman - a suffocatingly insipid lullaby for his daughter, all coddled up in plinky plonky music box clichés.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021

This isn’t the new normal as much as long-awaited relief from an old and obsolete abnormal, when Hollywood’s un-prettiest lies convinced audiences that romance, aspirational glamour and escapism could occupy only a suffocatingly narrow channel.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 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