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46 examples of Suffocating in a sentence

A child with a tumor that nobody helped, who was slowly suffocating.
He cut my mom six different times in six different directions, suffocating poor little me in the process.
All we wanted to do was stop those plastic bags from wrapping and suffocating our beautiful home.
But in unhealthy love, these feelings shift over time from exciting to overwhelming and maybe a little bit suffocating.
The direction is consistently clueless - all whirling sound and fury, a slave to the extreme unpleasantness of the environment; suffocating in an ill-chosen music score and in indifferently flashy acting.
But, instead, I realized that these films have made the very determination of the great "tragedy" trivial when the same boring situations, the same suffocating dysfunctional families and friendships continue to play out just have they been over and over again in some sort of attempt to knock out previous distortions of family life (much of it existing in the 1950s and earlier with personality and character aberrations being made ever so subtle), supplanting it instead with the "reality" of how things actually are.
In the first twenty minutes we are swept away by several powerfully portrayed emotions: a suffocating and overbearing mother has a violent argument with her live-in 40yr old daughter; a piano teacher (and professor of music)'s love for her pupils expressed in unswerving critical appraisal; the joy that music can inspire both in the listener and the performer.
Lovingly crafted and terribly interesting to watch Garfield's gritty, breakthrough performance (introducing a new kind of rebellious acting style that would carry over to the Brandos and Clifts and so on after the war) but all that sisterly affection is a bit suffocating.
The rebels aided by mercenaries and a cyborg, try to brake his suffocating hold on his subjects.
She observes the suffocating atmosphere and the mind-boggling frenzy that the socialites live in.
Garcia does everything to make this atmosphere suffocating - there are few outdoors scenes initially.
The film is suffocating, dark and endless yet paradoxically contains some of the director's funniest and lightest scenes.
Imagine the perfectionist forms Kurosawa had achieved with samurai epics, Ford and Lean with lyrical, volatile nature, Tarkosvky and Bresson with the spiritual-bound outer space or dinky office desks of priests and cops, then add a too-generous wallop of Clouzot's suffocating suspense flooding from the dark recess of human nature - and King Hu's universe of the Wuxia STILL has plenty of its own identity left!
But their unifying thread is youth, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future, as well as the suffocating state paternalism that underlies the wider malaise itself.
But, nowadays, research increasingly is misdirected toward lucrative prizes, professional recognition, and financial gains – rewards that are suffocating the creativity and passion that scientific progress demands.
Europe’s leaders have tried to fill this institutional lacuna with complex, non-credible rules that often fail to bind, and that, despite this failure, end up suffocating member states in need.
The biggest danger to US democracy, he believed, was the tyranny of the majority, the suffocating intellectual conformity of American life, the stifling of minority opinion and dissent.
We risk a world of suffocating heat waves, severe droughts, disastrous floods, and devastating wildfires.
For example, in India, Delhi’s suffocating air pollution has led the government to experiment with “even-odd” policies: individuals can drive only on certain days, based on the numbers on their license plates.
The real criminals are the smugglers who cram the desperate and the destitute onto rickety boats or hide them in suffocating trucks with little regard for their rights or safety.
Americans tend to find this expectation of commensurability suffocating, while Europeans find it reassuring and liberating.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s election seemed the last hope for the new Berlin-Paris accord needed to prevent a suffocating Italy from triggering the next – this time lethal – domino effect.
But with the current regimen of credit austerity, imposed to contain economic overheating and inflationary pressure, making conditions for SMEs worse, the financial sector – the least reformed sector in China – now is suffocating the beating heart of the country’s economic dynamism.
Of course, it is Putin’s government that, with the help of the military-industrial complex, has been suffocating Russia’s economy.
Rather, it is the cry of an entire people suffocating under the collective knee of racism.
Ladders, seven metres in length, followed one another, some still firm, others shaky, yielding and almost broken; the steps were narrow and green, so rotten that one seemed to walk in moss; and as one went down the heat grew suffocating, :he heat of an oven proceeding from the air-shaft which was, fortunately, not very active now the strike was on, or when the furnace devoured its five thousand kilograms of coal a day, one could not have risked oneself here without scorching one's hair.
She was suffocating, intoxicated with the darkness, exasperated with the walls which crushed against her flesh, and shuddering also with the dampness, her body perspiring beneath the great drops which fell on her.
She could not have said why, she was suffocating, she was dying of the desire to kill everybody.
I was suffocating . . .
Half lying on a couch in the library, I was suffocating.