smothered

How To Use smothered In A Sentence

• The pilots took it up to 1000-ft or so and released the fire retardant that smothered the fire and left only smoke trailing out.
• She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
• Tayrah took a deep breath and smothered the anger she felt approaching and then quickly changed the subject.
• It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
• The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
• They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off.
• One hill I passed over I found to be composed of puddingstone, that is to say, a conglomeration of many kinds of stone mostly rounded and mixed up in a mass, and formed by the smothered bubblings of some ancient and ocean-quenched volcano. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
• The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
• In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same - a blanket of wet cow manure.
• The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.