How To Use Smothered In A Sentence
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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.
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She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
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Tayrah took a deep breath and smothered the anger she felt approaching and then quickly changed the subject.
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It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
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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.
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They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off.
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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,
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The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.
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It needs a sunny wall or fence and a neutral to alkaline soil, where it will become smothered in intense blue flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first, from 30 yards, was well-struck, but the keeper palmed it away and the follow-up from Anthony Ruddy was again smothered by the Erris custodian.
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In many ways this is rural France's most appealing region, an area of winding back roads, of lost-and-gone hamlets, of tree-smothered hills and of wheat fields bright with poppies and corncockles.
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A bulky parka smothered the individual's identity, but the flared black trousers marked him as a member of Starfleet; grinning, Kirk redirected his course to join his snowsuited comrade.
The Kobayashi Maru
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the butter cream smothered the cake
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The strawberries smothered in zabaglione which I had for dessert are summer itself distilled in a bowl.
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He smothered the baby with a pillow.
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The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
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She smothered her creased skirts with her hands then pulled her matching, dusted rose pink gloves off and set them on a side table.
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Potatoes are smothered in onions and garlic and the whole thing is slightly moist, yet oven-browned.
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When that wasn't enough, he then smothered the man in makeup, a cumbersome costume, and ludicrous prosthetics.
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I reach across the table and fork off a chunk of gravy-smothered biscuit.
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The most popular theory is that a cloud of dust smothered the earth in a thick haze that would have blocked out the sun.
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Charles Hamilton Sorley, a Great War poet, once wrote an achingly poignant poem about the ‘millions of mouthless dead’ whose individual identity had been smothered by their ubiquity.
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To me, it looked like albino broccoli and no matter how much cheese you added to a steaming plate of it (because growing up that was the only way it was served — smothered in cheddar cheese), it felt like an imposter, a genetic mistake that no amount of dairy could improve.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Wrecked in 1912, it is smothered in marine life and is home to large numbers of wolf fish, whiting and cod.
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Two doused him with a fire extinguisher and others smothered the flames.
The Sun
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And the other options are still likely to be fried, roasted, or fried and roasted, and smothered in cheesy or creamy sauce.
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However Ann had noticed one of the day's specials, two boneless pork chops in apple sauce and smothered in melted cheddar cheese for £4.75.
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The heat is transferred to the meat and any flames are smothered.
Times, Sunday Times
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She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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According to Diner’s Journal the meatballs are “slow braised in ragu, smothered in caciocavallo cheese, garnished with arugula and sandwiched between two squares of homemade potato-ricotta foccacia.”
Mia Dona Launches Meatball Cart on Friday | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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When they played the barcarole from Contes d'Hoffman everybody sang it and rose to their feet cheering the beautiful prima donna with whom the song was so closely identified, and who made one of a gay group at a flower-smothered table.
The Common Law
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Last month more than 35,000 salmon died in the Klamath River, smothered by low flows and turgid waters.
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For the past two games, the defensive backs have smothered opposing receivers, which in turn has helped the suddenly resurgent pass rush.
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In a second "rosery" we were fairly smothered in sweets.
Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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Bobby ordered a bean-and-cheese burrito the size of a rolled-up gym towel, smothered in guacamole and sour cream.
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Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet.
Finnegans Wake
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But she quickly smothered the flames with a wet towel while shouting for help, a court heard.
The Sun
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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Here's what it tastes like: Good pumpkin pie (sans crust) smothered in whipped cream.
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It's an Oreo Brownie covered in soft-serve ice cream, smothered in marshmallow topping, hot fudge, and whipped cream, and sprinkled with crushed Oreo cookies.
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Another pic sees her smothered in soapy lather to symbolise the need for face cream and sunscreen.
The Sun
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I went out of the meeting room; the atmosphere there smothered me.
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For some years there was an uneasy rapprochement with Richard, but in 1397 Gloucester was seized, at the king's orders, and taken to Calais, where he died, having apparently been smothered under a feather bed.
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In autumn the grass is smothered with leaves.
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He caught sight of a slop-shop where old clothes smothered the entrance with their mucid heaps.
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Unless you're eating this ironically in a West London gastropub then the chances are your prawns are frozen shrimps bloated with sugar and salt water, then smothered in ketchup and mayonnaise.
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The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
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In early summer, the silvery foliage of snow-in-summer is smothered with white blossoms.
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What more the skipper would have spoken remained unsaid, for _crack, crack, crack_! sounding smothered amongst the trees, came the reports of the rifles and the replies made by Don Ramon's vedettes as they were driven in, and the skipper's eyes flashed as he placed a little whistle to his lips and blew shrilly, bringing his own men together at the run.
Fitz the Filibuster
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The smoke's usual acridness was smothered by the residue of the liquor in her throat.
The Metrognome and other Stories
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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They include a single malt accompanied by beer and hot dogs smothered in cheese and onions — the franks in deference to my belief that politics is the most entertaining contact sport going.
Politicos on the Home Front
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When they arrived, the 100 ft-long rockery was smothered by undergrowth and the Japanese acers were invisible to the eye.
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The house was quiet except for the sobs she smothered against his chest.
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She fell for me fairly quickly, and frankly, for the first two months of our relationship, she was the pursuer and I often complained that I felt smothered and overwhelmed by her.
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The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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She had heard that this smothered flames.
CHARMED LIFE
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Hoping to get a better idea of what the Hat has to offer, we selected a couple appetizers to start us off, choosing the pork drummy ($11.25), described as being two ham hocks slow cooked until the meat falls off the bone, smothered in a tangy barbeque sauce and served with their house coleslaw.
Vue Weekly
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The grassy slopes are criss-crossed with paths and, at weekends, smothered with people.
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The killer smothered the victim with a pillow.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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The latest violence has smothered any remaining hopes for an early peace agreement.
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Its provocative themes were smothered by a talky libretto that alternated between earnest exposition and sitcom jokes, set in smoothly tonal, insipid musical language.
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But in the absence of intrepid investigative reporting and editorial courage, they smothered the audience in inconsequential material about the most consequential of topics.
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Heavy brows converge into a huge beak of a nose which hovers over thick lips smothered by a huge moustache.
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These latter qualities are often smothered by social convention and cultural prejudice which converge to constrain us from realising our full potential.
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Lewanna imagined thin, crispy crust smothered in sweet yet savory tomato sauce, warm cheese, pepperoni, and succulent mushrooms.
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The practicalities of the device have yet to be solved - who wants to go to a party smothered in electrodes and lugging a laptop about?
Times, Sunday Times
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There are also sundaes (hot fudge and strawberry) along with profiteroles smothered in fudge sauce, and a frosty root beer float.
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These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a titter of laughter but we smothered it before it became a guffaw.
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A giant dust storm, known as a haboob, smothered Phoenix, Arizona, in the US, last week.
Weatherwatch: world round-up
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The Dublin team was clearly psyched up in preparation for the early exchanges and a Paul Gibbons miscalculation presented them with a scoring opportunity that was smothered by Gavin Dowling.
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However, there is a distinct difference between linzer cookies (like the ones you buy in the bakery with the powdered sugar) and linzer tortes, which are baked in a round cake pan, smothered in jelly, and latticed on top.
LINZER TORTE
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CHICKEN RETSINA Kotpoulo Retsinto meh Staflia page 224—Golden-brown pieces of sautéed chicken smothered in a sauce of resinated white wine and halved green grapes.
The Summer of My Greek Tavérna
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The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate.
Do Customers Want What You're Selling?
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In a trice, however, by the assistance of his female second, he was on his legs again, and grappling with his antagonist, endeavoured to tip him a fall, but instead of accomplishing his purpose, he received a cross-buttock, and the brewer throwing himself upon him as he fell, had well-nigh smothered him on the spot.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Once ready, dampers can be smothered in butter, syrup or jam, or filled with a campfire sausage.
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Three barges, smothered in floury dust, were being unloaded of their cargoes of powdered felspar by a multitude of coughing men, each guiding a little truck; the dust filled the place with a choking mist, and turned the electric glare yellow.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Still I was surrounded by women and smothered with affection.
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It was claimed she had smothered baby Christopher at the family's home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and either did the same to Harry or shook him to death.
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Here is a world where the sun has been smothered by a sky of grey ash.
Times, Sunday Times
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[[GLAD MIDSOMMAR!]] thursday: salt&vinegar crisps & lemon-tinged water rolled up in a stale headache-tortilla. smothered in non-profit-job-responsibility sauce with a hint of reluctant obedience. pre-stonewall gay documentaries as garnish. friday: [[proposed menu:]] a ramequin filled with moral-backslide. [to partake of the drink thursday's vow prohibits.] [[p.s. my lungs absofuckinglutely hate me.]] comments??
Pojken Diary Entry
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Imposed on this smothered realm was the refuse left by the French engineers, a moraine of abandoned military equipment.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Murtha smothered his rage, although I knew he would with pleasure have had us stuck up or blackjacked.
The Ear in the Wall
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Conversely, sorrow that was smothered in guilt tended to be a sort of glaucous hue.
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The heat is transferred to the meat and any flames are smothered.
Times, Sunday Times
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These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tara smothered a grin and pulled aside a stack of paperback spy novels to find a blue book titled promisingly enough: The Stargazer’s Catalog.
Dark Oracle
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Smothered in coal dust, we looked like the Black and White Minstrels, and the removal of our lab goggles just made us look even more ridiculous.
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Pastry shops are filled with delicate beauties, light-as-air genoise or flakey pastry sandwiching rich, luxurious creams and custards, smothered under glazes and ganaches or tiny glasses filled with something creamy, something fruity, intriguing layers of textures and flavors, complicated in the making and most complicated in the eating.
Jamie Schler: When Simple Banana Bread Becomes Exotic (a recipe)
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She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
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But she quickly smothered the flames with a wet towel while shouting for help, a court heard.
The Sun
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What confronted them was a complex device like a giant rat trap, but where the cheese should have been placed it was smothered with honey.
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bonnets smothered with flowers
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This movement signals a departure from totalitarian politics in the country that have smothered civil life, made the state a facade and held society in checkmate with constant threats of civil war and external enemies.
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A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose.
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Equally nonaggressive but more effective are roast chicken atop smothered leeks, and a meaty stack of portobellos topped by grilled radicchio and balsamic-bathed onions.
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After a short time, it was discovered that the ship was thrown on a reef of rocks, and had bilged; and although the water entered her through the holes which the rocks had made, and filled her up to the lower beams, yet that it soon smothered, and, the bilge pieces keeping her upright, she lay comparatively quiet.
The Wreck on the Andamans
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When the plague raised its head again in 1944, it was smothered with DDT and sulfa drugs, therapies brought to Senegal as a result of the American military presence at the end of World War II.
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But over protection and over direction can make loved ones feel smothered: relinquish top billing for a support role this week.
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But in order to try it you may have to stop wolfing the smothered pork chops and grits the person on your left is drooling over, or the curried goat with superb succotash that has made the friend on your right fall suddenly silent.
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The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.
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The menu is filled with stylish comfort foods like liver and onions, wood-smoked pork chops, and shell steak smothered in crisps of pancetta.
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But in order to try it you may have to stop wolfing the smothered pork chops and grits the person on your left is drooling over, or the curried goat with superb succotash that has made the friend on your right fall suddenly silent.
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She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
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I had realized he was special then, but I smothered the feeling.
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When, warmed by champagne, he had her all to himself, he unbosomed himself of his wrongs; of his smothered resentment against the new chef at the club; his worry over the house in
The Man of Property
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These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't expect us to return wearing kaftans and smothered in patchouli oil - but who knows?
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This loaf of cooked chicken enclosed in bacon and forcemeat was more complex than other popular colonial dishes such as smothered chicken but, said the author, it was “a pretty first course, summer or winter.”
One Big Table
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The natural flavour and tenderness of the salmon is not smothered and the combination is far more manageable.
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Stephanie smothered the withering response that sprang to mind.
CHAMELEON
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The delight of the Waterford team was clearly evident as subs and management alike smothered the goalscorer on the pitch.
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‘Sure,’ not Amy shrugged and looked out the window at the grey clouds that smothered the bright pinpricks of light so far below.
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Selina began to scrap her two scrambled eggs onto the brown meat pattie that had been smothered in ketchup, mustard, pickles, lettuce and mayonnaise.
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Others haltingly recalled dishes like rijsttafel, a mélange of recipes pilfered from colonial Indonesia, and uitsmijter, which is essentially eggs and ham smothered in cheese.
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Aided by Boston wingmen, center Robert Parish smothered him and held him to 12 points and 3 rebounds.
One Season
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It gives viewers a genuine view of Somali women and at the same time validates their existence in a time when their stories are smothered with silence.
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Acting on a tip, Pattaya police were quickly in and out of the Night Market in South Pattaya and their big bust smothered a small time dealer, netting a cache of pornographic video CDs.
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The family have turned the garden into a winter wonderland where trees and shrubs are smothered with twinkling white lights.
The Sun
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Casca was on a bireme out of Antium when Yesuvius blew and smothered Herculaneum and Pompeii beneath tons of ash and lava.
The Eternal Mercenary
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When she turned on the lights in the drawing-room, she disclosed herself clad in a sweeping negligee gown of soft rose-colored stuff, throat and shoulders smothered in lace.
To Kill a Man
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She woke to a blissfully comfortable state, smothered in a cocoon of feathery soft blankets.
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A cast-iron fireplace in the living room, smothered by decades of paint jobs, was sandblasted to reveal beautiful old tiles, most of them smashed.
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Bifolding glass doors and windows ran the length of the house, opening out to a wide sun-drenched terrace flanked by roughcast walls smothered in a dark creeper, the outer edge of which fell away with heart-stopping suddenness into a zigzag shaped swimming pool.
Mistress For A Weekend
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Out near the lighthouse at Cabo Sardão the cliffs were smothered in mesembryanthemum, sherbet-yellow flowers in tangles of fleshy leaves.
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We ate chicken drumsticks smothered in barbeque sauce.
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Porter was asked if he wanted to comment on the pathologist's opinion that his daughter was probably killed by being smothered.
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That was no way to earn three ounces of jasmine oil, let alone to earn three years of omphaloskepsis, which was what the doctor ordered (or did the doctor order the smothered burrito?).
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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There was a bommie displaying an intense array of amazing soft corals, smothered with layers of purple and orange fish.
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They all come smothered in teriyaki sauce over fried or white rice, 3 pieces of California roll sushi, and a lot ofsalad.
Happy Teriyaki BBQ Cart | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country.
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The heat is transferred to the meat and any flames are smothered.
Times, Sunday Times
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And behold what I would have applied to the tongue of the evil-speaker, had I undertaken to give you a just and natural idea of all the enormity of this vice: I would have said that the tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant; acts with more violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it can not consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys.
Of a Malignant Tongue
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The two women were perfectly conscious of reciprocal dislike, but they smothered the feeling beneath conventional suavities.
New Grub Street
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When the dry season started, with all this increased solar energy, gramineous plants sprouted all over the place and smothered the alfalfa.
Fidel Castro Addresses ICA on Livestock
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It was like being smothered by a feather bed.
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Right, I am again creatively smothered with CHOICES.
Zut Alors!*
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Was she smothered, was she strangled, why wasn't there any blood?
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This weekend while out shopping I found myself suddenly craving a big greasy cheeseburger smothered in grilled onions.
Haunted by Halloween candy?
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But regardless, now Olivia feels smothered by the overly protective nature of her father's attentions.
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Dark grayish smoke smothered the scene and the eerie green fire ate away at the hole in front of him.
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Leanne imagined thin, crispy crust smothered in sweet yet savory tomato sauce, warm cheese, pepperoni, and succulent mushrooms.
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Equally nonaggressive but more effective are roast chicken atop smothered leeks, and a meaty stack of portobellos topped by grilled radicchio and balsamic-bathed onions.
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I swear they went much faster this spring. the lilac in the backyard is coming into bloom — basically, we saved that plant; 2 years ago, it was completely smothered in blackberry and morning glory — and the candytuft & veronica ? continue to bloom, but everything else is still just getting ready to do something.
The tulips are nearly gone - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson
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Fruit, cakes, biscuits, sandwiches filled with exotic spreads reminiscent of their supposed origins and breakfast cereals smothered in rich full-cream milk.
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The next morning, our hopes were further smothered as our complimentary ‘breakfast’ consisted of a stale bun and a cup of milk.
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I remember one hot morning the tar on the road melted and I got the wheel of my bicycle caught in the tramlines, and was smothered in melted tar.
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But she quickly smothered the flames with a wet towel while shouting for help, a court heard.
The Sun
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He smothered the baby with a pillow.
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She had heard that this smothered flames.
CHARMED LIFE
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Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation.
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Then comes reconstruction, reorganization, a getting acquainted with the new order of things, and the new duties and experiences to which it will give rise; then will be discoveries of new truths, and new applications of old; old errors and superstitions have been renounced, and facts and principles which have long lain in abeyance, smothered under a weight of neglect and unappreciation, will start into fresh magnitude.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Bobby ordered a bean-and-cheese burrito the size of a rolled-up gym towel, smothered in guacamole and sour cream.
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The family have turned the garden into a winter wonderland where trees and shrubs are smothered with twinkling white lights.
The Sun
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It needs a sunny wall or fence and a neutral to alkaline soil, where it will become smothered in intense blue flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months.
Times, Sunday Times
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Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow
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When the plague raised its head again in 1944, it was smothered with DDT and sulfa drugs, therapies brought to Senegal as a result of the American military presence at the end of World War II.
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The strawberries smothered in zabaglione which I had for dessert are summer itself distilled in a bowl.
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Billy Jo's family is literally smothered by the ubiquitous dust; her community is being snuffed out by its grip.
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Daddy was similarly smothered in dead-of-night shades, inky black tattoos obscuring any flesh-coloured parts and only copious body piercings to distinguish him from the road surface.
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When that wasn't enough, he then smothered the man in makeup, a cumbersome costume, and ludicrous prosthetics.
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But it's great in omelets, smothered in sandwiches, with chips and salsa or just by the spoonful (just kidding, but hey if that's your preference, no judgement here).
Veggie Cream Cheese
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All the risottos were good enough, particularly the tutto mare (shrimp, scallops, crab) and the Milanese, made with saffron, parmesan, and a hunk of braised veal rib smothered in a lemony gremolata paste.
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So when the air is heavy with imposture, and men live only to make money, and the service of God is become a thing of words and ceremonies, and the kingdom of heaven is bought and sold, and all that is high and pure in man is smothered by corruption -- fire of the same kind bursts out in higher natures with a fierceness which cannot be controlled; and, confident in truth and right, they call fearlessly on the seven thousand in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal to rise and stand by them.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
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The menu is filled with stylish comfort foods like liver and onions, wood-smoked pork chops, and shell steak smothered in crisps of pancetta.
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I smothered a laugh as my dad suddenly stopped midway through his angry tirade directed at a group of shamefaced security officers, and slowly pivoted his head in our direction.
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But another early casualty is conscience, routinely smothered in the national media echo chamber.
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Then it's home to make potato salad and grill veggie hotdogs on the grill - which we'll have smothered in grilled onions and peppers.
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What is demonstrated here is the dull mind of a brilliant intelligence, whose glean and glister is continually stifled, smothered by a perpetually renewed wrap-around of self-reference.
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He was answered with what sounded like a sniff and a smothered sob.
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Then, I imagine, it is pumped into sausage skins and served in a bun smothered in ketchup and mustard.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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For the same $50 you can see a dozen museums in Little Rock and still have money left over for a plateful of tamales smothered with chili at Doe's Eat Place, Bill Clinton's favorite haunt.
Pam Grout: Doing It On The Cheap In Little Rock
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He told the trial at Reading Crown Court he could find ‘no clear evidence’ to suggest that any of Patel's three babies had been smothered or deliberately suffocated.
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The killer smothered the victim with a pillow.
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The Life of Life Healing Spa said it can trim down any body part with its fire treatment, where the client is massaged, smothered in Chinese herbs and wrapped in wet towels before being set alight.
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The killer smothered the victim with a pillow.
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There, also, he caught a glimpse of himself as an obscure, diaphanous man reflected on the glass; his transposed image was cast amongst the wide residential street-the adjacent and similarly designed homes, the xeriscaped lawns-backlit by a table lamp but also illumed in that frozen vapor which brightened the night, that curious downpouring which smothered the gravel-laden property and changed his Suburban Half-Ton LS from sandalwood metallic to an almost solid white.
'The Post-War Dream'
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Raised by his grandmother, he befriended the Aarhus chapter of the Hell's Angels motorbike gang, is smothered in tattoos and has his nipples pierced.
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She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
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In the high hedges the ruddy cane of the willows was smothered by the succulent green tips of hawthorn and bramble; and on the rolling countryside that belle of trees, the larch, stood out among the copperish buds of the beeches and the first tightly folded leaves of the chestnuts, with a pale green feathery loveliness all its own.
The Way Home
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In the rose garden was an arbour smothered in riotous bloom, and in the arbour was a divan, wide and low and voluptuously soft, meet for the repose of an invalid on a languorous afternoon, or indeed any other time.
The Definite Object A Romance of New York
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One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray.
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Then, I imagine, it is pumped into sausage skins and served in a bun smothered in ketchup and mustard.
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It was his straightforward stick-to-it-iveness that impressed us all - his staunch commitment in the face of a tempting lemon tart smothered with cream, which the rest of us weak-willed sugar hounds guiltily gobbled up.
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It needs a sunny wall or fence and a neutral to alkaline soil, where it will become smothered in intense blue flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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These have smothered the bare branches in my garden during the past couple of months.
Times, Sunday Times
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He smothered the flame with a wet blanket.
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After two weeks in Shanghai, the commission, accompanied by Fox Movietone News, proceeded to Nanking and two weeks later arrived in Peiping, “smothered in flags” in its honor.
The Last Empress
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The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.
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The family noise outside smothered now that the paterfamilias was in session.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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Mutton chops are still on the top of the menu, followed by broiled filet mignon, rack of lamb and a thick, crusty veal chop smothered in wild mushrooms.
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From the Cheeseburger (ground beef and macaroni smothered in cheddar and American cheese) to the Parisienne Mac (brie, figs, mushrooms, and a certain je ne sais quoi), Sarita and her husband, Caesar, take this favorite to new heights.
S'MAC
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My seared-scallop-and-cauliflower combination seemed a little wan by comparison, although all the hipsters at our table enjoyed the monkfish, which was smothered with sections of artichoke, in a thick, lemony gremolata.
