smothering

How To Use smothering In A Sentence

• This can lead to reduced coral growth, inability to recover from hazards like cyclones, smothering of coral by sediment, fish poisoning and unusually high growth rates for organisms that overgrow coral or support its rivals.
• But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
• He had no intention of enduring this smothering by overkindness any longer than it took him to figure out how to run away, and where to run to. The Fourth R
• The smothering saleslady held the dress up to me.
• the smothering soft voices
• The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives.
• With his back to goal and two defenders smothering him, he somehow manages to turn and make room for a shot, which he fires narrowly wide.
• A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.
• To me, cooking is all about capturing the natural flavour of the food, not smothering it - clean, tasty, fresh food that looks great.
• Woman were crying with tears of joy as men swung their children around before giving them a smothering bear hug.