Utiliser "smother" dans une phrase

1. "I'll try not to smother her, I'll try not to smother you either, but I do have an urge to…" he covered her lips with his

2. in case I smother unsuspecting passers by

3. I hear Findel smother a chuckle from behind me as he pulls up the gangplank

4. She wound her hands in his hair and tried to smother him between them until he stood up and took her in his arms

5. The captain insisted on one final caution during this process, and that was to have wet cloths readily available to smother sparks which could set the

6. About six o'clock it seemed as if the children would smother for lack

7. As my hiccupping grew softer, the shrouded silence of the empty apartments pressed down around me until I thought I would smother under its weight

8. He, among others, was so effective that in three hundred short years they were well on the way to overcoming the mighty Roman Empire that had tried to smother their movement with the hundreds of thousands of sacrifices that they’d had to endure during this time

9. Enilia had to smother a laugh with her head into the blanket; otherwise, she would have woken up the entire camp

10. Deep holes were appearing on the crust of Earth and roots of the trees were surfacing in the Realms and they spread to smother every other plant

11. As though to certify these attempts to smother democratic debate as the official policy of his administration, the President of the United States accuses the Tea Party people of “fear mongering

12. “He knows where we’re headed! We’d best keep moving as fast as we can or the flies will smother us

13. we're headed! We'd best keep moving as fast as we can or the flies will smother us

14. Since these new crystals had made an appearance, finding oil to smother the door with to produce a good burn had been a difficult task but in the end you can always rely on a blacksmith to have some and he had found a large vase of combustible oil down by the town forge

15. In the meantime, he’ll alert the State Department and smother the meeting with security

16. him longed to take her in his arms and smother her face with kisses

17. “So I’m,” your mother is slipping, she is surely going to smother you with a pillow soon

18. when together they start to smother each doest want to kill the other

19. I expect if our tame police cannot smother this, your descriptions will be

20. "They'd smother us with numbers," answered the Cimmerian

21. the warm smother of beating

22. Elsa used all her strength to smother my face against her breast

23. extinguish hope in others and smother creative sparks before they catch

24. Don't slaver butter thickly all over that whole grain bread or pumpkin, or smother your whole grain pasta in a cheese sauce

25. Now it seemed to gaze despairingly at the housing estates surrounding it as though threatening to creep up on its roots and smother it

26. With family there are emotional ties and that would smother me

27. The belt did generate new breathable air, but it still tasted stale, and the field had a tendency to close in with every inhale, as if someone was trying to smother 114

28. smell of ozone and an indication that a fire had burned briefly, before the force fields kicked in to smother it

29. He wants to smother you with shame

30. He wants to smother you with feelings of being put down

31. I groaned and tried to smother my face with the pil-

32. Andrew, the only person on that stage with even a modicum of common sense, had the presence of mind to run for the sand bucket to smother the flames before they spread too far

33. He almost chuckled when she tried to smother her cringe at the taste

34. doing his best to smother it

35. that threatened to come lower and eventually smother

36. chewed on it to smother a grin

37. “It’s a good thing he’ll have you around, Zach, to steer him right - for he has three older sisters - who from the sound of it, are going to smother him with sisterly love and devotion, so he’ll need someone to look out for him for protection and guidance from his sisters

38. Earlier they had seen the long, trailing branches dragging in the wind, but now they saw nothing; the fog pressed against the glass like it was trying to smother the house

39. Oh how I wanted to smother her

40. Petitions on behalf of another man, Bino, brave beyond words, who heroically had peeled the borrowed jacket from his shoulders to smother the flames, despite the serious burns received to his hands and face

41. Gabrysia and Jordon cupped their hands over their mouths to smother their laughter

42. the time when they could smother him with their weight,

43. The entire scene struck me as absurd and a bubble of laughter escaped, despite my best intentions to smother it

44. Dawit was lucky they didn’t let in him and then smother him in the middle of the forest

45. would questions scare? The force with which the authoritative layers attempted to smother

46. In the dining tent even the lovely smell of dinner can't smother the Skunk's Revenge

47. smother all intellectual publication on the grounds that it is not fitting their profile on science

48. They smother them with ‘no’s’ and rules and limits and control; ‘No! No! Don’t do that! You can’t do that! No! Don’t cross the street you might be killed! Huh? The child already crossed the street and was not killed

49. me that I had repeatedly picked women who would mother and smother me instead of

50. Can we continue this in the morning?” I yawned hugely, bringing a hand up to smother it, but I noticed that Harley and Teagan were drooping too

51. My hair!" burst out poor Jo, trying vainly to smother her emotion in the pillow

52. But we can hardly condemn too strongly a system which, instead of fostering the scattered seeds or sparks of genius and character, tends to smother and extinguish them

53. however, was throwing oil on a fire I was sorely put to it to smother the

54. "Complaining doesn't have to do good, it just feels good! And if these pirates—I say pirates out of consideration for the professor's feelings, since he doesn't want us to call them cannibals—if these pirates think they're going to smother me in this cage without hearing what cusswords spice up my outbursts, they've got another think coming! Look here, Professor Aronnax, speak frankly

55. "Men of the Lenni Lenape!" he said, "my race upholds the earth! Your feeble tribe stands on my shell! What fire that a Delaware can light would burn the child of my fathers," he added, pointing proudly to the simple blazonry on his skin; "the blood that came from such a stock would smother your flames! My race is the grandfather of nations!"

56. going about with some of them Sinner Fein lately or whatever they call themselves talking his usual trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed me without the neck is very intelligent the coming man Griffiths is he well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never felt they could have made their peace in the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for years killing any finelooking men there were with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldnt have been so bad I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march past the 10th hussars the prince of Wales own or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers or tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go and smother themselves for the fat lot I care he has plenty of money and hes not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if I could find out whether he likes me I looked a bit washy of course when I looked close in the handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the expression besides scrooching down on me like that all the time with his big hipbones hes heavy too with his hairy chest for this heat always having to lie down for them better for him put it into me from behind the way Mrs Mastiansky told me her husband made her like the dogs do it and stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he so quiet and mild with his tingating cither can you ever be up to men the way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with the skyblue silk things on them hes certainly well off I know by the cut his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppress tearing up the tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over that outsider that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans tip cursing him to the lowest pits that sponger he was making free with me after the Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain after the lord Mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes Val Dillon that big heathen I first noticed him at dessert when I was cracking the nuts with my teeth I wished I could have picked every morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it was so tasty and browned and as tender as anything only for I didnt want to eat everything on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have

57. He was trying to smother a triumphant grin

58. She saw Oonagh smother a grin

59. He stood there, a hand clasped over his mouth to smother the sound of his breathing

60. She wondered if her pounding heart would overwhelm her microphone, smother the transmission to the recorder

61. Annette seemed content to allow the kids to smother her

62. I could have screamed aloud; I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the crowd of hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me; and still, between the petitions, the ugly face of my iniquity stared into my soul

63. Bakers, closed shops, night-cabmen, porters sweeping the pavements flashed past his eyes, and he watched it all, trying to smother the thought of what was awaiting him, and what he dared not hope for, and yet was hoping for

64. Without at least a day or two of warning, especially with all the snow piled up around Five Forks to help smother any fires, there’s no way Somyrs pulled it off

65. The ironclad’s long, slender bowsprit was a lance, pointed directly at the sun settling into the broad blue waters of Hahskyn Bay in a smother of crimson ash and golden clinkers, and the day’s oppressive heat was settling into the cool of evening along with it

66. stood in the twilight road, grinning tantalizingly at her, she could not smother her own But when he had climbed down and untied his horse from the back of the buggy and grin as she drove off

67. I looked the landlord in the eye and ordered a pint of beer, my tears and grief to smother

68. From that time, she worked with all her might to "smother" her rival, enlisting the services of influential friends to persuade the managers not to give Christine an opportunity for a fresh triumph

69. Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike

70. He was heaving for air, fighting off that depression that always came to smother him after they had sex, the that’s-all blues

71. In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses

72. All this a babble of fright and frustration, a surge of instant love and instant fear to smother the stupid babble

73. Nor, for that matter, was there a woman in the world whose flesh could smother Tom

74. Babies smother every day

75. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me

76. In the pew opposite Willie were two ginger-haired girls—obviously twins—trying to smother their giggles

77. But the black airless tomb began to smother him and he screamed again

78. – LIE DOWN AND ROLL: Roll over slowly to smother the flames

79. – SMOTHER THE FIRE: Roll them in a carpet, wool blanket, fire blanket as above

80. If you are present where a fire starts (or where a camp fire accidentally spreads) in woodland, or on heath or grassland, your first action should be to SMOTHER IT

81. – Roll on the ground and try to wrap yourself in something that will smother the flames—a mat, blanket or overcoat

82. You’ll smother him

83. He put his hand over his mouth to smother a laugh and his eyes fairly sparkled with mischief

84. The wide cares of my destiny, will smother,