SUFFOCATE in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for SUFFOCATE, such as:
1. When he gets home it is suffocated.
2. I am suffocated by the intense heat.
3. He either suffocated, or froze to death.
4. He half suffocated himself with laughing here.
5. Villefort, suffocating, pressed the doctor's arm.
2. I am suffocated by the intense heat.
3. He either suffocated, or froze to death.
4. He half suffocated himself with laughing here.
5. Villefort, suffocating, pressed the doctor's arm.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SUFFOCATE
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suffocate
v. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
v. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 After the fever had left his veins, the youth thought that at last he was going to suffocate.
2 A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow.
3 His attention was roused, I saw, for his eyes rained down tears among the ashes, and he drew his breath in suffocating sighs.
4 He was immediately seized by a suffocating cough that soon ended his triumph.
5 By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill.
6 Villefort, suffocating, pressed the doctor's arm.
7 The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
8 On the morning of the first of September, Scarlett awoke with a suffocating sense of dread upon her, a dread she had taken to her pillow the night before.
9 From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.
10 She felt simply dismayed, with a sort of cold and suffocating dismay; the thought that she would not have felt like that if she had really loved him flashed instantaneously through her brain.
11 Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
12 Ethan was suffocated with the sense of well-being.
13 The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.
14 When he gets home it is suffocated.
15 He half suffocated himself with laughing here.
Example Sentence:
1 Big cats always suffocate their prey before they eat.
2 He either suffocated, or froze to death.
3 The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire.
4 I am suffocated by the intense heat.
5 I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
6 The report said that the victims had suffocated in the fumes.