Sample Sentences forstultify (auto-selected)
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Flat, gently rolling, it is stultifying.† (source)
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The morning session dragged on with stultifying dullness, and it didn't take long to establish that Herschel had accomplished little and taken few chances in his career.† (source)
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Well, I tell you I am no longer that passive, weak creature that has spun evil from evil till the web is vast and thick while I remain its stultified victim.† (source)
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For all of our talk of expansion and pioneering spirit these past five centuries, we all know how stultified and static our human universe has become.† (source)
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In the gallery the citizens stood and yawned, then wandered off into the less stultifying atmosphere of the hallway or gazed out the windows with awed expressions, watching the snow lash toward them in parabolas before it struck against the leaded panes.† (source)
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Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique.† (source)
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She fled the main street and the stultifying heat for the shade of narrow alleyways.† (source)
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What fired the imagination of my students one week bored and stultified them the next.† (source)
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She could do the most prosy things (though she was wise enough never to stultify herself with such "household arts" as knitting and embroidery), yet immediately afterward pick up a book and let her imagination rove as a formless cloud with the wind.† (source)
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The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification and hypocrisy—this discovery is not a matter for triumph.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Not only that—it was close to 95 degrees and stultifyingly humid.† (source)
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He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.† (source)
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An editorial in a Kansas newspaper screamed: On Saturday last Edmund G. Ross, United States Senator from Kansas, sold himself, and betrayed his constituents; stultified his own record, basely lied to his friends, shamefully violated his solemn pledge ...and to the utmost of his poor ability signed the death warrant of his country's liberty.† (source)
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At breakfast, and while they were packing the few remaining articles, he showed his weariness from the night's effort so unmistakeably that Tess was on the point of revealing all that had happened; but the reflection that it would anger him, grieve him, stultify him, to know that he had instinctively manifested a fondness for her of which his common-sense did not approve, that his inclination had compromised his dignity when reason slept, again deterred her.† (source)
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They had just come from the stultifying workaday world of the ad agencies, money managers, and law firms in the entertainment district around Century Boulevard.† (source)
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Up to that moment Tom had been mostly stultified by emotion utterly new to him.† (source)
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