Use "smothering" in a sentence

1. smothering life and expectation under a blanket of grey cloud

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2. The rain seemed to be easing off, although the sky remained low and smothering

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3. The wolf spoke again, smothering the moment with his reek and the furnace

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4. smothering the chill of morning in burning impatience

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5. The heavens split wide open and I fell into a void, a pit of dense, black, smothering raven feathers

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6. The wolf spoke again, smothering the moment with his reek and the furnace heat of his breath

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7. When they reached the end of the corridor a small man in a leather jerkin jumped out of the shadows and Danton’s voice boomed out, smothering the chill of morning in burning impatience

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8. smothering dented tins of matt

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9. she had tried to break the bones of that smothering hand,

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10. in the deep smothering mists,

11. ’ I replied, unsuccessfully smothering that thought as best as I can

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12. started to blend into the pale corona of mist and smog smothering

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13. “Oh?” she smiled and took his arm, smothering it in her ample flesh

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14. He hits the main light switch, smothering the bed-sit in darkness and as his eyes adjust slowly, he fumbles for a lamp on top of the fridge, preferring soft shadows at this time of night

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15. daughter and was smothering her in kisses

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16. When they would miss each other dearly and run into each other’s arms, smothering the other with kisses and cuddles until they finally made love and fell asleep

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17. As he walked, Op14 felt the stinging heat of their smothering presence

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18. I crumpled his letter and threw it to the floor and held the pillow over my chest smothering my heart that was shattering into a million tiny pieces

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19. Yet unaccountably, the smothering fatigue that had been my constant companion for the last five months was gone

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20. Less than ten years after the revolt of AD 66–70, a sudden catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman resort cities, smothering them under more than a six-foot blanket of volcanic ash, deposited by a superheated pyroclastic flow from the mountain

21. You did an outstanding job up there today!” Quan gushed while smothering Mia with kisses to her little face

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22. A strange, smothering smoke

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23. Cira had come to inside the smothering darkness, and realized that this is

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24. Elena took out the knife she had tucked under the belt she had smothering her waist

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25. Society's struggles seem trivial, down here, in the smothering silence

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26. “It must be from whatever it is that’s smothering the sun!” added the suddenly shrill voice of Azareel

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27. I felt that it was smothering me

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28. “It must be from whatever it is that's smothering the sun!” added the suddenly shrill voice of

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29. She instinctively tried to cover her throat with her arms, but instead of fangs felt a warm tongue smothering her face in spittle

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30. seemed to press up closer against my face, smothering me with

31. Tress acted quickly, dragging a nearby drape from the wall and smothering him in its folds to extinguish the last of the flames

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32. She liked and respected her aunt but the woman's constant monitoring of her behavior felt quite smothering

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33. Winded by the force of the bolt, Tress had managed to pull her cloak around herself as she fell backwards, instantly vanishing from sight and smothering her face in the rough fibres of her cloak

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34. Corvus immediately threw himself on top of the man, his bulk easily smothering the smaller man

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35. A thick green froth formed on the surface, smothering Bryony’s head

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36. I told her she was smothering me, and to lay off and all that, but secretly, I was really, really glad to see her

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37. ESP? When you were a child how did you know your favorite kitten would be dead before you walked into the room and peeked in the closet and saw its body stiff and flat, like the mother had (accidentally?) lain on it, smothering its 2-week-old life out of its tiny body

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38. Stars dotted the sky which was now black as coal, smothering the lights of the Manhattan skyline far out in the distance

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39. But I need to stop smothering them; they’re

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40. smothering her face with doggy kisses with its slobbery tongue and

41. Somehow, this Elsa girl was smothering me with her relationship and love talk

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42. The smothering cloak of gray dissolved till just a few milky thin clouds skirted the moon’s full laughing face

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43. You just have to embrace it by smothering your sense of self enough to grasp its full significance

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44. It’s the smothering type and never-say-die attitude of attraction that one feels for another that appears to be romantic love

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45. Then she was in his arms smothering him with kisses

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46. His brain instantly registered the disintegration of his torso, and the thick smothering blackness that closed in on him as he slowly sank towards hell itself

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47. ’ Ariel backed off, smothering her face in the fluff of the leopard’s neck

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48. Once in position on each side of the bed, one of the men made a sign with his head to his companion, then jumped on the bed, kneeling astride Edward and smothering the boy with his pillow

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49. His accomplice was also stunned and fell off the bed, then the pillows smothering the two boys were hurriedly removed

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50. He then understood with horror that the burning napalm had burned all the oxygen in the air around him, smothering his engines

51. smothering his face with her marvelous breasts only pulling away when he started to gasp to turn

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52. The wizard paused for second, smothering the urge to punch his cell-mate

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53. candidates from other teams smothering us with their dirty, greasy old

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54. Dotting and smothering are as abusive as beating and starving

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55. Maybe he could sabatage Rickys healing? smothering him or

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56. Smoggy exhaust poured out of the vents, smothering the soldiers

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57. She was staring at Ruth, still smothering Abigail with the pillow, and it was then that I saw the full terrible truth

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58. smothering him with a loving embrace and kisses on his face

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59. When heroes engage prophets, martyrs, or messiahs, heroes win by adapting to, then smothering and finally extinguishing the field that is trying to emerge or withstand it

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60. ” Joel hastily intervened, smothering what sounded suspiciously like laughter to Kathy’s ears, a sound which was echoed in the choking, strangled sounds the other men standing around her were making, as they manfully, but unsuccessfully, struggled to contain their mirth

61. The second way water extinguishes a fire is by smothering the fire

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62. Paul could feel its smothering effects

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63. She arose and jerked the princess to her feet, smothering her mouth with a punishing

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64. A dark wave was falling over him, smothering and breaking upon his body with the weight of a landslide

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65. The sea mis licked at them, chilling them, smothering them

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66. They were in a smothering, gray vacuum that made it impossible to see anything

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67. Grandma smothering his back in calamine lotion

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68. Shortness of breath or smothering sensations

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69. hands and if two of the hands of the perpetrator of the crime were busy smothering the mouths of

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70. is that most human institutions have become highly effective tools of smothering potentia l,

71. His yell was a wonderful reward and she couldn't hide the satisfied smile smothering her face

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72. The cold, calculating hand continued smothering his

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73. Grey and smothering, the

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74. He hoped she might be as anxious to carry on their conversation as he was, but he did not want to run the risk of smothering her with affection

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75. blinds the eyes of them that are there with a smothering smoke, the worst of smokes

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76. Like the hungry protoplasm of an oversized amoeba, ballooning clouds of flapping cloth now completely engulfed him, smothering his face and wrapping themselves ever more tightly around his arms and torso

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77. Yea, the darkness therein is so thick that one may grasp it, for the fire there gives no light, but blinds the eyes of them that are there with a smothering smoke, the worst of smokes

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78. He carried her inside, smothering her in a thousand kisses

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79. There was a sound of rain everywhere, smothering everything

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80. The period of reflection succeeding this silly action, compelled me to admit the necessity of smothering my pride and choking my wrath, and bestirring myself to remove its effects

81. Without hesitation and showing no regard for his own life, he threw himself onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates who were lying in close proximity

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82. Without hesitation and showing no regard for his own life, he threw himself onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates who were lying in close proximity

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83. He stayed there for three hours, smothering in the heat

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84. They rose in an incredible pillar of smoke—and no doubt steam—on tails of flame that sent more smoke sheeting across the sky in a smothering canopy

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85. I lay in the dark under a pale and smothering camberwick bedspread, pushing at blisters of paint brushed over lyres and garlands on the texture of the wallpaper

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86. She remained mute, not knowing that he was smothering his affection for her

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87. When she left him, he was adding Ken’s cards and dice to the pile under his chest, like a dragon smothering his hoard

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88. I’d announced that we had reason to celebrate, and Mom had leaped from her seat, burst into tears, and hugged Amy, who also began weeping, murmuring from beneath my mom’s smothering nuzzle, “He’s talking about The Bar, he’s just talking about The Bar

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89. held for one more blow, and before she could sink upon him, smothering him

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90. Dust rose smothering the air, as from nearby

91. Damon and Janelle were whirlwinds of activity, competing for my attention throughout the afternoon, smothering me with their need

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92. Noticing clouds smothering the moon, she took one last look around before bursting from her hiding place and racing across the lit-up lawn in less than ten seconds

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93. The sun was just rising, but it was already unreasonably hot and damp, and clothing that had seemed comfortable in London quickly felt smothering in Alexandria

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