How To Use Asphyxiating In A Sentence
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The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion.
Honeybees in Danger
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asphyxiating gasses
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The dust clouds raised by cars were still asphyxiating, but macadam was slowly bringing relief.
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Fiscal tightening is asphyxiating our economy, excessive fiscal adjustment is destroying our growth," he said.
Spain's Rajoy Takes Aim at Deficit
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In fact, all the characters in the film feel so strongly about the agony of ordinary existence, and find their lives so asphyxiating, that escape, in whatever form it takes, becomes their oxygen.
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We face a unipolar world and the gigantic hegemonism of our neighbors, who have always sought to destroy this Revolution and now feel more emboldened by the idea of asphyxiating it, giving it the final blow, because their minds cannot tolerate the existence of the Revolution and what it has meant for this hemisphere, in their backyard, which today they seek more than ever to secure.
Fidel Castro Women's Congress Address
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It was the distinctive sound of a duck asphyxiating on a franger.
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For a while, all this democracy seemed to be asphyxiating democracy.
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Apparently the thick, nonporous tape kills the wart by asphyxiating it or something.
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Once arrested, protesters, including five Britons, were taken to a police barracks where they were beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas, threatened with rape and forced to sing fascist-era songs.
Briton recalls the night Italian police beat up G8 protesters
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The rot spreads, mould covering the sheen of life, dragging it down with cloying, asphyxiating stealth.
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It came from all sides, asphyxiating him, robbing him of the peace of mind he so desperately craved.
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Florida is one of only 16 states that still permit bestiality — a fact that animal-rights activist and Sunrise Sen. Nan Rich learned to her horror when a Panhandle man three years ago was suspected of accidentally asphyxiating a family goat with which he was copulating.
Discourse.net: Insert Alligator Joke Here
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New agents, notably phosgene (an asphyxiating agent) and mustard (a blister agent called a vesicant), had been developed and used.
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To the north of Ypres the Germans, by employing a large quantity of asphyxiating bombs, the effect of which was felt for a distance of a mile and a quarter behind our lines, succeeded in forcing us to retire.
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Colloquially, the act of asphyxiating someone with a liquid or particulate is called “drowning” them, even if they don’t end up in the end result of that state, “drowned”, i. e, dead from asphyxiation from a liquid.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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Thin air is un-nourishing and asphyxiating; it is also what people and things disappear into.
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They don't seem to notice the sun beating down or the fact that most people look as if they are asphyxiating.
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Suddenly, he was floating in space, miraculously not asphyxiating from lack of oxygen.
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When the tip is tugged, a piston mechanism ejects the cyanide pellet into the animal's mouth, where the pellet becomes a deadly gas, asphyxiating the victim in less than two minutes.
Wendy Keefover-Ring: The Ugly Cost of Killing
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Colloquially, the act of asphyxiating someone with a liquid or particulate is called “drowning” them, even if they don’t end up in the end result of that state, “drowned”, i. e, dead from asphyxiation from a liquid.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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McCrery is charged with asphyxiating her son, 6-year-old Camden Hughes, on Saturday in Hampton.
Texas mom appears in N.H. court in son's death
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She suffered severe brain damage after asphyxiating during birth but that would have been avoided had she been born earlier by emergency Caesarean section, a hearing in Preston was told.
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Soldiers were deployed to stop these protesters - shooting into crowds, wounding many, and spraying teargas from helicopters, asphyxiating at least one child.
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The so-called asphyxiating gases produced their effect by producing lesions and congestion in the pulmonary system, causing death by suffocation.
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
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Trappers kill the cowbirds by asphyxiating them with automobile exhaust or by breaking their necks.
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Rubbish bins burned and plumes of smoke and asphyxiating clouds of toxic chemicals filled the air.
Greece approves austerity cuts to secure eurozone bailout and avoid debt default
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Gas masks protected soldiers against asphyxiating agents, but no adequate protection had yet been found against mustard gas, which attacked the skin.
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Refrain from employing any projectile which weighs less than 400 grams that is either explosive or loaded with incendiary or inflammable material, from all projectiles having for their sole object the spreading of asphyxiating or harmful gases, all expanding bullets or those which will easily flatten out inside the human body, such as jacketed bullets whose jacket does not entirely cover the core or is nickel.
Military Instructors Manual
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Like before it rains; a heavy feeling in the head, aching bones, an asphyxiating dampness...
Joan Miró: A life in paintings
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Or maybe it's all that smog and all these celebrities are asphyxiating.
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Employing poison weapons or asphyxiating gases is classed by the tribunal as a war crime.
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The rocket exploded on the launch pad, burning alive and asphyxiating engineers, designers and officials.
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In their incompetent hands, data protection has become an asphyxiating blanket of political correctness, rather than a sword and shield to protect the interests of law-abiding citizens.
