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stifle as in: stifling the urge
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These excessive rules that stifle creativity.
stifle = suppress (prevent something or decrease its development)
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The authorities cracked down in an attempt to stifle dissent.
stifle = suppress (prevent something or decrease its development)
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The book is so boring, it stifles whatever curiosity students bring to the class.
stifles = suppresses
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It is a stifling police state.
stifling = making it difficult for people to express themselves freely
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I stifled my laugh.
stifled = suppressed
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I stifled a giggle.
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stifled = suppressed (stopped)
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Aria stifled a giggle.
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stifled = suppressed (prevented from happening)
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When I finally regain enough sense, I roll the leg back and forth on the ground, which stifles the worst of it.
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stifles = suppresses
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He leaned in toward me, seemingly incapable of stifling the smile.
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stifling = suppressing (preventing something from developing)
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There was barely a face to be seen in the school that didn't look worried and tense, and any laughter that rang through the corridors sounded shrill and unnatural and was quickly stifled.
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stifled = suppressed (stopped)
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The bus wasn't air-conditioned, and the hot, heavy air was almost as stifling as the handcuffs.
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stifling = suppressing or constraining (preventing something from happening)
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She turns and must stifle a gasp.
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At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.
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stifling = suppressing (preventing something from developing further)
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Roy stifled a laugh.
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stifled = suppressed (held back)
- Panicking, Cole stifled a cough—he didn't dare cough. (source)
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A large gray rat scuttled around the corner of the house and Meg let out a stifled shriek.
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stifled = suppressed (prevented from continuing to develop)
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Atticus tried to stifle a smile but didn't make it.
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stifle = suppress (prevent)
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I'd stifle the curses rising in my throat and bite out, "Just don't do it again."
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stifle = suppress
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A stick snapped and he stifled a cough.
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stifled = suppressed (stopped)
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She ached with her own stifled protests.
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stifled = suppressed (held back)
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He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let him pause for air.
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stifle = stop
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Mother can barely stifle a laugh, and I stare straight ahead.
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stifle = suppress (prevent)
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Dodge, when present at these meetings, usually kept silent and listened to the exchange of strategies, disagreements over protocol, and interpretations of intel reports with stifled exasperation and anger: They were the self-proclaimed saviors of the queendom; they should have been engaging Redd in battle, not talking about it.
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stifled = suppressed (held back)
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I heard Mina stifle a cry.
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I stifled a yawn, then looked at my watch.
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stifled = suppressed (prevented something from happening)
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she stifled a giggle
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stifled = to suppress (prevent something from happening)
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Then I see Kantorek and am scarcely able to stifle my laughter.
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stifle = suppress (prevent)
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"Yes," answered Diana, stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed sitting-room door.
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stifling = suppressing (preventing something from developing further)
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I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.
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stifle = suppress (prevent)
- He knew that unless someone figured out some way of controlling it, the drug trade—and the epidemics of violent crime and untreated addiction it left in its wake— would stifle any hope for progress in the city.† (source)
- I cover my mouth to stifle a sob.† (source)
- Even Rose had covered her mouth to stifle a laugh.† (source)
- Thomas couldn't stifle his worry about what Newt was thinking.† (source)
- He had to concentrate to stifle the cough and at the same time he was trying to listen.† (source)
- The rain is good too: it will stifle the fires.† (source)
- The commons were hooting and pointing, the lords and ladies were trying to stifle their chuckles, and failing, and over it all Ned could hear King Robert laughing, louder than anyone.† (source)
- "It's just that ...." and I was trying hard to stifle my giggles, but one of them escaped through my nose with a snort, which made me laugh more.† (source)
- I stifle it in the folds of the hanging cloak, clench my eyes, from which tears are squeezing.† (source)
- He heard her stifle a sob.† (source)
- Cinder watched her shoulders tremble, listened to the short gasps of breath as she tried to stifle the sobs.† (source)
- But she had tears in her eyes, and had to stifle a fresh batch of giggles, which made the hungry man whose order she was taking look up from his menu, his thin lips pursed in silent disapproval.† (source)
- Mulch had to stifle a giggle as he dropped the last two bars down the hole.† (source)
- "I know but —" I turned my head away to stifle a wet, burbling sneeze.† (source)
- I imagine hundreds and hundreds of girls sitting cross-legged on the floor, hands cupped on their knees, chanting om, and have to stifle another wild urge to laugh.† (source)
- T: I think you have reached the point where you cannot stifle the memories, whatever you wish to call them, any longer.† (source)
- The Communicators were to stifle any rumors.† (source)
- I can't stifle a laugh at my own lame joke.† (source)
- I stifle a laugh and turn toward her while Mr. Hanson is facing the board.† (source)
- It suddenly made me very angry, that he should stifle my ambitions of getting into the University then come over and ask about my dead father as easy as saying good morning.† (source)
- I choked back the dread, the anxiety, tried to stifle it.† (source)
- But he knew to stifle those words before they came up and out.† (source)
- The heat, by this time, was singeing my clothes, had caught Claudia's gossamer gown, so that I grabbed her up and ran down the passage trying to stifle the flames with my body.† (source)
- Some of them are shocked, some are trying to stifle grins.† (source)
- He looked like an ordinary bank employee, but Alba recognized him immediately and was unable to stifle the shout of joy that rose up from within her.† (source)
- "No worry, no worry," Generose said in her sparing English, and raising her hands to stifle the pessimistic conversation about money.† (source)
- It was 2:45 in the morning, and she had to stifle the impulse to call Blomkvist.† (source)
- I stifle the urge to go back to the window and assess my competition.† (source)
- Patrick's head snaps back as one of them gags him to keep him from talking, and they do the same to Aida to stifle her screams.† (source)
- Miss Milhouse would have scolded Harriet soundly; she would have taken it as her personal mission to stifle the little girl's exuberant personality.† (source)
- I had to stifle a scream, because I'd seen that wolfish face before.† (source)
- Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: Stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die.† (source)
- At that, I really had to stifle Bree.† (source)
- Having centralized American agriculture, the large agribusiness firms are now attempting, like Soviet commissars, to stifle criticism of their policies.† (source)
- Stifle it, Joe.† (source)
- My mother tried to stifle me, but I was young and unthinking.† (source)
- Maria Freeman is droning on again, and I stifle a yawn.† (source)
- He slammed his kneecap into her spine and her body arched up, causing his nails to cut into the side of her mouth to stifle her cry.† (source)
- She looks around at all the walls and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate look, pulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out.† (source)
- The issue du jour involves "rubrics," or how the format of an assignment can favor the strengths of some students and highlight the weaknesses of others or, in any event, how it can stifle creativity.† (source)
- A spurt of flame escaped from between Saphira's teeth, and Eragon had to stifle a similar response in words.† (source)
- I threw my hands up and tried to stifle a cough.† (source)
- When he saw me, he put his hand over his mouth to stifle a cry.† (source)
- She's amused at something and she tosses her head back and laughs heartily, without trying to stifle it.† (source)
- Richter, banging her gavel to stifle the subsequent chatter.† (source)
- She put her hand over her mouth as if to stifle laughter, but her eyes, which were the blackest I had ever seen, so black that it was impossible to distinguish the pupils from the iris, were alarmed and bewildered.† (source)
- Still, the real and obvious intent was to stifle the Republican press, and of those arrested and convicted under the law, nearly all were Republican editors.† (source)
- I thought I heard Total stifle a snort, but I didn't look down.† (source)
- He tries to clamp his throat shut over it, to stifle the sound, but he cannot and he begins to sob, a high, helpless coughing sound.† (source)
- When the girl grabs her apron, Cook turns from her onion, and I stifle a gasp, trying not to gawp at the ruin of her face.† (source)
- Her breath caught in her throat as she tried to stifle a sob.† (source)
- While I thought this was pretty impressive, my friends, some of whom had traveled Europe in a sideshow with Miss Peregrine, could hardly stifle their yawns.† (source)
- Cesar's answer was intended to stifle, not provoke Angel's inquisitiveness, but it served only to encourage more questions.† (source)
- Jessica started to reply but stopped herself and then had to stifle a smile instead.† (source)
- On the run, he'd learned to stifle hunger, and now he often had to force himself to eat, even on days when he was feeling well.† (source)
- I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind-yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands?† (source)
- If these secrets weren't enough to stifle conversation, we now had husbands and did things with them that were very embarrassing.† (source)
- Dart felt a bitter howl climbing in his throat and jammed the side of his thumb between his teeth to stifle it.† (source)
- But Paul Berlin kept giggling and bit his arm and tried to stifle it, but still remembering—"War's over, Billy," Doc Peret said, "that's a million-dollar wound."† (source)
- I have to stifle my own smile, especially when Kevin soldiers on, completely oblivious to the innuendo.† (source)
- As the train picked up speed, Oz took a deep breath interrupted by a yawn—perhaps, Lou thought, to stifle his anxiety.† (source)
- He had been so afraid of being caught, so exhilarated at his victory, and now lay trembling, trying to breathe calmly, trying to stifle laughter.† (source)
- She clapped a hand to her mouth to stifle the cry of hurt and surprise, and he stepped past her, into the house.† (source)
- I heard her stifle a yawn.† (source)
- Only by snapping her teeth together did she stifle a scream of fear.† (source)
- Every five minutes or so she would stifle a yawn.† (source)
- She put her hand to her mouth to stifle a scream.† (source)
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Once we hear a stifled cry.
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stifled = suppressed (stopped)
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When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.
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stifles = suppresses (stops)
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Even now I weep to think that, borne down as you are by the cruellest misfortunes, you may stifle, by the word 'honour,' all hope of that love and happiness which would alone restore you to yourself.
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stifle = suppress (prevent)
- I curled up there, trying to stifle the silly sobs against his hot skin.† (source)
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stifle as in: the heat is stifling
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It was a hot, humid, stifling day.
stifling = making it difficult to breath
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- The heat and humidity are stifling.
- Her perfume was stifling.
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The air was hot and stifling.
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stifling = making breathing difficult -- typically due to heat and humidity
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It was stifling hot inside.
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stifling = so hot and humid that breathing is more difficult
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Sweating profusely day and night, training in the sun, unable to sleep in stifling hotel rooms and YMCAs, lacking any appetite, virtually every athlete lost a huge amount of weight.
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stifling = making breathing difficult -- typically due to heat and humidity
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I didn't know if it was the emptiness, the stifling heat, or the fact it was only nine o'clock, but I couldn't settle into sleep despite how tired I was.
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stifling = making breathing more difficult
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In the summer's stifling heat, the room seemed airless and threatening.
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stifling = so hot and humid that breathing is more difficult
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The disc of the sun was dull silver as though it were nearer and not so hot, yet the air stifled.
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stifled = made breathing difficult
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The atmosphere is stifling, sluggish, leaden.
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stifling = (figuratively) making breathing difficult
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Even across the gym, it seemed she could smell his stifling cologne.
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stifling = making breathing more difficult
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And she was stooped and seemed to be finding it hard to breathe, as if the air of that place stifled her.
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stifled = made breathing difficult
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The air seemed thick and stifling.
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stifling = making breathing more difficult -- typically due to heat and humidity
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But what really recalled her to him at this moment was the stifling heat of the afternoon, which had brought the sweat out on his forehead.
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stifling = making breathing more difficult
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Thorin had given a lot of trouble, and turned and twisted in his tub and grumbled like a large dog in a small kennel; while Balin, who came last, made a great fuss about his air-holes and said he was stifling, even before his lid was on.
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stifling = having difficulty breathing
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Home, home–a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages.
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stiflingly = uncomfortable (figuratively, making breathing difficult)
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The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o'clock, opening the windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park.
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stifling = making breathing difficult -- typically due to heat and humidity
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It was as if a window were thrown open, admitting a freer atmosphere into the close and stifled study, where his life was wasting itself away, amid lamp-light, or obstructed day-beams, and the musty fragrance, be it sensual or moral, that exhales from books.
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stifled = stuffy (lacking fresh air that makes breathing easier)
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...and the sun's rays falling strongly into the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy, for sunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country. Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept.
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stifling = (figuratively) making breathing difficult
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Together they climbed the ladder into the dim, stifling tower room.
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stifling = making breathing more difficult or impossible; or so hot and humid that breathing is more difficult
- The room stank of Jordan's suffocating cologne, stifling smoke, and fear. (source)
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It was stiflingly warm, and the fire that was burning under the crowded mantelpiece was giving off a heavy, sickly sort of perfume as it heated a large copper kettle.
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stiflingly = in a way that makes breathing difficult
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Harry was also growing to dread the hours he spent in Professor Trelawney's stifling tower room, deciphering lopsided shapes and symbols, trying to ignore the way Professor Trelawney's enormous eyes filled with tears every time she looked at him.
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stifling = making breathing more difficult or impossible; or so hot and humid that breathing is more difficult
- Then came Astronomy at midnight, up on the tallest tower; History of Magic on Wednesday morning, in which Harry scribbled everything Florean Fortescue had ever told him about medieval witch-hunts, while wishing he could have had one of Fortescue's choco-nut sundaes with him in the stifling classroom. (source)
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And ever, after such an outpouring, oh, what a relief have I witnessed in those sinful brethren! even as in one who at last draws free air, after a long stifling with his own polluted breath.
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stifling = (figuratively) making breathing difficult
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Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
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- He's been told she can't scream: about the loudest sound she can make, with her tongueless, wounded mouth, is a high, stifled mewing, like a cat in a sack.† (source)
- Two brilliant dogs couldn't be bred if it risked a litter full of stifles so straight the dogs would be crippled by the time they were five years old.† (source)
- Every evening, when the stifling heat lifted, we would sit outside on the swing, sipping cherry drinks or Pepsi and eating salted sunflower seeds.† (source)
- He let out a stifled scream.† (source)
- He stifles the thought.† (source)
- Pain rushes through my body in sharp bursts, but I try to ignore it, stifling a groan.† (source)
- The heat became stifling.† (source)
- The air was thick with the scent of flowers, to the point that I found it almost stifling.† (source)
- The mountains trapped the bone-scorching heat, stifled the city like smoke.† (source)
- In the stifling darkness, Silas prayed.† (source)
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- An onrushing sense of claustrophobia stifled him, compressed his lungs, as if water filled their cavities.† (source)
- On the familiar leafy path down to the water's edge, it was easy to imagine Peris stealing silently behind her, stifling laughter, ready for a night of spying on the new pretties.† (source)
- Several of the students stifled cries; Ron had thrown himself backward and almost toppled off his seat as the spider skidded toward him.† (source)
- Luke stifled his instinct to run.† (source)
- One of the winged beasts dropped towards them, circled lower, and Bod made the call again, until it was stifled by hard hands clamping over his mouth.† (source)
- There was a half-stifled scream and then a pistol shot.† (source)
- The girls here didn't care for me, the clothes were stifling, people were trying to hurt me, and the whole thing felt uncomfortable.† (source)
- The dominance of the Circle stifles competition and is dangerous to our way of free-market capitalism.† (source)
- I stifled an impulse to call after her, to warn her...of what?† (source)
- Rose let out a bark of laughter, which she quickly stifled.† (source)
- Or-as Lacy would have said, English, Lewis-for every person like himself who liked the worn grooves of the familiar, there was another person who found it stifling.† (source)
- It was stifling hot in the Meanys' sealed house—sealed tight, I was always told, because Mrs. Meany was allergic to the rock dust.† (source)
- Her foot slipped on a slick rung, and Celaena barely stifled her cry as she gripped the bars, cursing as her knee banged into the gate.† (source)
- Emma made frequent and passionate arguments as to why I should stay, none of which acknowledged the life I would be abandoning (however meager it seemed), or how the sudden inexplicable disappearance of their only child might affect my parents, or the stifling suffocation that Emma herself had admitted feeling inside the loop.† (source)
- Even so, it was stifling under the sandsilk as Irri and Doreah helped Dany walk Drogo inside.† (source)
- No, cold winds to blow this stifling heat away.† (source)
- Her brother, Ptolemus, even stifles a yawn.† (source)
- Suddenly Reynie stifled a laugh.† (source)
- I thought it was a little cool myself, but I figured that anyone as heavy as he was must have felt stifled all the time.† (source)
- As Metias opens the door and steps inside, I can see some girls out in the hall stifling smiles behind their hands.† (source)
- The first night had been so stifling hot—no air conditioning in the middle of August—that Dad suggested they sleep outside.† (source)
- She had ordered a roast for this evening and it would be too stifling to eat.† (source)
- George and Rameck stifled their laughter.† (source)
- Having passed the point of no return, I slid my hand into her sleeping bag anyway, and she stifled a giggle as my fingers traced a line from her elbow to her wrist.† (source)
- The heat rose up from the concrete floor, stifling in the cramped space.† (source)
- Until the day he died, even in the stifling Ayemenem heat, every single day Pappachi wore a well-pressed three-piece suit and his gold pocket watch.† (source)
- The man stifled a very slight yawn and continued.† (source)
- Every one of them was stifling a sob.† (source)
- When I went to change the sheets on his bed and found them soiled, I closed my eyes and stifled the urge to wring the neighbor's neck.† (source)
- The woman in the green dress clapped her hand over Fayge's mouth, stifling the scream, pulling her onto the sandy floor.† (source)
- "Um —" Stifling a cough.† (source)
- The atmosphere in the house was stifling.† (source)
- I remember it being stifling that day, even though we had the fan rattling behind us.† (source)
- The media had resurrected my first name, which I'd hated since grade school, stifled at the start of every school year when the teacher called roll: "It's Nick, I go by Nick!"† (source)
- His eyes locked onto their hidden faces, and a stifling power fell over his mind, keeping him in place.† (source)
- Another hand stifled her cry of alarm.† (source)
- It has no sheets, and because the roof windows do not open the room is stifling.† (source)
- Lindy stifled a yawn.† (source)
- We lingered in silence, stifling giggles.† (source)
- Simmon managed, his voice sounding like a stifled sob.† (source)
- It got everywhere, stifling people who had shut themselves up in cellars or their flats, keeping as far as possible from the street.† (source)
- He turned then, with a mocking smile, and I stifled a gasp.† (source)
- "It's definitely dark, Ma!" they'd shout, stifling their giggles.† (source)
- Will summer be warm and rich and liberating or hot and dusty and stifling?† (source)
- I looked around, stifling a laugh.† (source)
- Toward the end of summer his busy schedule and the stifling heat caused his health to fail once again and reactivated his insomnia.† (source)
- Of course he hadn't cared much for Stovington before, he had felt stifled, buried alive, but that had been an immature reaction.† (source)
- She lay beside Saeed, falling asleep, but not craving his hands or his mouth on her body—stifled, as if Saeed were becoming her brother, though never having had a brother she was unsure what that term meant.† (source)
- A vampire hand lifted now to the grinning skull, as the stage was finally clear, as if stifling a yawn.† (source)
- She felt nothing, other than strangely cold; after the stifling heat of the night outside, the chill inside the hotel was intense.† (source)
- Stifled, restless, hungry.† (source)
- Jones stifled a grin as he went back to the schematic.† (source)
- Y.T. wraps the pictures up just the way they were, puts them back in her pocket, stifles a smile, returns to business matters.† (source)
- It was just one square room, in which I had arranged all my belongings, with a crude window in each wall so that by day the stifling desert air would have a chance to circulate, and with shutters to keep out the glacial wind that blew at night.† (source)
- Luma nodded in thanks and stifled a smile.† (source)
- In the summer, the cars were stiflingly hot because none were air-conditioned.† (source)
- Instead of the screeching of the parrots and the riotous noise of invisible monkeys, which at one time had intensified the stifling midday heat, all that was left was the vast silence of the ravaged land.† (source)
- The woman had kindly asked Salander how things were going, and she seemed satisfied with the stifled silence she received in reply.† (source)
- And it is because of the old witch Ultima from Las Pasturas—" It isn't true I wanted to shout, but my voice stifled in my throat.† (source)
- How did I know that someday-at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere-the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?† (source)
- Jessica saw the motion, stifled an outcry.† (source)
- The poverty—the unwashed children pointing sullenly at his new shoes, the familias slouching in hovels—was familiar and stifling.† (source)
- Paper airplanes, loud belches, high-pitched, ghostly moans followed by stifled giggles—it drives Mr. Curran mad that he cannot pick out one boy to punish for all this.† (source)
- Stifling our laughter, we'd hand the crushed coppers across the counter at the company store for candy.† (source)
- David watched with a rush of longing and with a sudden memory of his own sister, the two of them hiding under the kitchen table, peeking through the folds of oilcloth, stifling their laughter.† (source)
- He asked it lightly, but his voice sounded stifled; and Yves, who had lowered his head to his plate, looked up.† (source)
- I stifled a groan.† (source)
- "Uh, no thanks," Paco says, stifling a laugh.† (source)
- Hemlatha said to no one in particular, letting go and making for the outside to wash her hands, stifling her laughter.† (source)
- He looked startled, and Ambiades stifled a derisive laugh, but neither of them complained to the magus.† (source)
- The melody was stifled in his throat.† (source)
- She smiled at Etta and Mattie, but something in their faces stifled it.† (source)
- She stifled a yawn with her hand.† (source)
- I stifled a triumphant laugh.† (source)
- The night was stifling and Jake so sandy that by the time he got through there was so much dirt in the bed that they might as well have been wallowing around on the ground.† (source)
- The long, hot days at the foot of the hills did seem to the mountain-bred creature interminable and stifling.† (source)
- It's stifling in here.† (source)
- Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends?† (source)
- He heard thunder in the west, the promise of rain on stifling nights, one of the primitive memories.† (source)
- The heat pressed heavily on the roof, stifling sound.† (source)
- His father worked for dusty, stifling decades in the cotton mill.† (source)
- Stifling a yawn, Max stumbled down the hallway with his classmates shortly before six o'clock Monday morning.† (source)
- "I want to learn trouserman," he said as they sat down to rest before going back inside the stifling, smelly heat of the wreck yet again.† (source)
- The new maid turns away, but I can see her slender shoulders bobbing from her stifled laughter.† (source)
- WITHIN THL stifling women's unit, Crystal "the mayor" made an effort to maintain a faint semblance of prison protocol.† (source)
- I stifled a sob.† (source)
- The gregarious Johnson has stifled his personality, disciplining himself to be completely silent in meetings in order to avoid offending the president.† (source)
- A s SOON as —we push through the club's double doors, we're out of the stifling heat and noise.† (source)
- The air grew hot and stifling, but it was not foul, and at times they felt currents of cooler air upon their faces, issuing from half-guessed openings in the walls.† (source)
- The throne seemed blocks away, and now the dress was stifling me.† (source)
- On resuming his seat in Congress, at the climax of debate over Adams's preamble, Jefferson had felt as nearly unsuited for the business at hand as for the stifling city climate.† (source)
- Stifling a yawn, I hung my coat over the back of my desk chair and moved over to my bed.† (source)
- The air in the dark burrow was stifling.† (source)
- On the landing, Elizabeth Bradford stifled a snort.† (source)
- Gradually, the cool air receded and it was stifling again.† (source)
- Noah stifled a laugh while sliding my water toward me.† (source)
- Boomer had opted for closed, and had trapped stifling summer inside.† (source)
- "We don't pay bribes and we're not going to start," Mortenson said, stifling a yawn so as not to offend Parvi.† (source)
- I push myself to my elbows, stifling a moan.† (source)
- Chelise lifted her free hand to her lips and stifled a cry.† (source)
- In winter it is cold; in summer, stiflingly hot.† (source)
- His creative intelligence, stifled by too much theory and too many grades in college, would now become reawakened by the boredom of the shop.† (source)
- A lot has occurred about which I wasn't told; something that had not only stifled the members' interest but which, according to the records, had sent them away in droves.† (source)
- It's stifling in here.† (source)
- IT WAS SUNDAY and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel "Peg Leg" Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors.† (source)
- Lee stifled a bitter answer.† (source)
- The heat was stifling, and the men's T-shirts had already absorbed all the sweat their bodies had to yield.† (source)
- It seems to have been a good life, but the East stifled Howard.† (source)
- When we crossed the Mubarazi River, Deo made a sound like a stifled cry.† (source)
- But you stifled, negated, betrayed it.† (source)
- He somehow stifled the cry that rose in his throat.† (source)
- His people were meant to live in the wide expanses of the open tundra, and he was relieved to be out of the stifling closeness of the dwarven-made caverns.† (source)
- At each site, the mourners sat hunched, stifled in their black dresses and black suits, oppressed by heat as well as by grief and by a sense of their own mortality.† (source)
- I nod, and she stifles her own smile and continues in a more appropriate direction.† (source)
- The night air seemed even more stifling than it had been during the day when the temperature had hovered in the nineties with a matching humidity level.† (source)
- The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters.† (source)
- He stared over at Franny's prostrate, face-down position on the couch, and heard, probably for the first time, the only partly stifled sounds of anguish coming from her.† (source)
- Although the objections proved immaterial, some States would have clung to them with dangerous inflexibility if their zeal for their opinions and interests had not been stifled by the more powerful sentiment of self-preservation.† (source)
- All of a sudden the house seemed unbearably small and stifling.† (source)
- "It will not be long before the harvest," Nathan would murmur, and I would agree with him, stifling the query whether our strength would last till then, saying, "Ah yes, not long now; only a little time before the grain is ripe."† (source)
- During the daytime the heat was so stifling and oppressive that I could understand why this city waited anxiously for night.† (source)
- I stifled a cry and felt the first implacable surge of the cadre as they surrounded me, each man screaming as he came, each man with his own obscenity and his own demands, with his own questions, his own needs and appeasements.† (source)
- Vladimir breaks into a hearty laugh which he immediately stifles, his hand pressed to his pubis, his face contorted.† (source)
- "This stifles your really creative engineer," Koteks said, adding bitterly, "wherever he may be."† (source)
- I heard stifled chuckles of approval from behind me.† (source)
- "Think not less of me in my omniscience," said Brahma, stifling a yawn with his scepter, "if I admit to having, for the moment, forgotten these figures."† (source)
- It begins 'Der Itzig—' " Sophie stifled a cry and blinded her sight with her hands.† (source)
- ANNIE falls to her knees by the bed, stifling her mouth in it† (source)
- And it was from that stifling as well as from everything else that I drove away, when I left the coast in the Peugeot.† (source)
- She leaned against the desk, face averted, shoulders quivering, one hand stifling the sounds erupting from her mouth.† (source)
- He towered high above his fellow teachers and complained that he felt stifled among them.† (source)
- I stifled a yawn.† (source)
- TYRONE In a stifled voice.† (source)
- There were stifled titters all over the room, and the applause pattered again for Lena's fiftieth verse, and Jaybird Kelsey ducked his head, embarrassed.† (source)
- Even the sugar curtains were evil, a senselessly fumbling mouth; and the leaves, wavering, stifled their tree like an infestation.† (source)
- We seek order, we seek unity, but we will not accept the peace of stifled rights or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest—for peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.† (source)
- It pressed downward, by some trick of the eye, oppressive, stifling, deadly.† (source)
- "How dare you!" she said, her voice stifled.† (source)
- As the stifling confine began to smother him, he felt a welling of intensified panic.† (source)
- The kid had quit shaking, and his sobs had calmed to a stifled whimper.† (source)
- Without responding, he ran after Minho, entering the dark and stifling Berg.† (source)
- One describes....He comes at last, with a stifled groan as of relief.† (source)
- Palmer heard one stifled squeak; all else was silence.† (source)
- She stifled the cry that rose to her lips.† (source)
- "I can understand you feeling a little stifled around here," Chronicler said.† (source)
- "Where does she live, then?" asked Meggie, stifling a yawn.† (source)
- The train suddenly seems stifling and I'm definitely queasy now.† (source)
- As Ned looked to him, Lord Petyr stifled a yawn.† (source)
- The garage had no windows and was stiflingly hot.† (source)
- The mousy-haired girl clamps her hand over her mouth and stifles a sob.† (source)
- They worked at night, in rain, in stifling heat.† (source)
- As soon as Sam realized where the video had started, she stifled a yelp.† (source)
- The stifling weight of his power threatens to drag me down.† (source)
- After what seemed like hours, Meg stifled a scream.† (source)
- He checked their stifles and hocks and he commented on their gait.† (source)
- She'd got the window open, which was a mercy: otherwise the place would have been stifling.† (source)
- She stifled an urge to keep asking, to keep picking around the edges of the thing.† (source)
- One of the links bisected the man's mouth like a horse's bit, stifling his cries for help.† (source)
- Tired, their strength sapped from the stifling weather, he and his mother finally head home.† (source)
- Stifling a murderous rage, she refused on the grounds of exhaustion.† (source)
- Her shoulder shifted slightly, and she stifled her scream of pain.† (source)
- The walls press closer and the heat is stifling.† (source)
- He is considerably older than she, closely associated with the stifling Euro-AngloAmerican society.† (source)
- An uncomfortable silence fell between them, stifling in the long throne room.† (source)
- "How noble," Mr. D said, stifling a yawn.† (source)
- And with that comforting idea, sleep rolled over him, stifling all further thought.† (source)
- His stifled sobs finally faded into an occasional hitched breath, and eventually he fell asleep.† (source)
- High above Silas, in the balcony, Sister Sandrine stifled a gasp.† (source)
- CINDER SLUMPED DOWN AT HER WORK DESK, RELIEVED TO finally be out of that stifling apartment.† (source)
- Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now not safe, but stifled?† (source)
- "We'll have to try again tomorrow," Kate said finally, stifling a yawn.† (source)
- Hermione stifled a little moan behind her hand.† (source)
- He leaned on one elbow and stifled his frustration.† (source)
- Danny asked, and at this they both stifled great bursts of laughter.† (source)
- The hot weather has returned and the carriage is stifling today, despite being only half full.† (source)
- The air was stifling, and sweat had moistened every last inch of Thomas's body.† (source)
- Her lips trembled even more, and her chest lurched with what could only be a stifled sob.† (source)
- Constance's stifled voice called out, "Good grief!† (source)
- The weather remained stifling, as if taunting him.† (source)
- The smell of blood and ink was stifling.† (source)
- The mow, on a night that hot, would be stifling.† (source)
- A stifling blanket pressed down on Eragon from all directions, smothering his thoughts.† (source)
- With a heavy sigh, she peeled the stifling gloves from her hands and slipped them into her pocket.† (source)
- After a long moment of hot, stifling silence, the king puts a hand on Cal's shoulder.† (source)
- Even when it grew warm and stifling and filled with smoke, there was no reprieve.† (source)
- The sun was reaching a point where it would become dangerous, the heat stifling.† (source)
- The rain of the past week has stopped at last; now it's stiflingly close.† (source)
- He breathed shallowly and slowly, stifling a need to cough.† (source)
- Miles turned around, stifling the anger that bubbled up in him at the sound of Otis's voice.† (source)
- Stifling a gasp, i yanked my hand back, only to feel the something drop down on me with a thud.† (source)
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