How To Use Smothering In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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The smothering saleslady held the dress up to me.
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the smothering soft voices
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The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives.
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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.
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A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.
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To me, cooking is all about capturing the natural flavour of the food, not smothering it - clean, tasty, fresh food that looks great.
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Woman were crying with tears of joy as men swung their children around before giving them a smothering bear hug.
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And a little while after that, the storm passed, but it left the air uncleansed, and the heat as smothering as ever.
EVERVILLE
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They then insisted on throwing a house warming party, practically smothering us with the locals, who were all very nice.
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I dare say Vicki is my favorite Housewife, despite her ogre-like bossiness and constant smothering.
'Real Housewives of O.C.' recap: The girls return | EW.com
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
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The mask was multi-layered and began with a smothering of vitamin H cream followed by a generous lathering of oil containing vitamins A, D and E.
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It was his opinion that the injury was evidence of suffocation or smothering.
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Since when is drowning everything in "EVOO", smothering foods in chicken stock, and putting any crap she can find from her fridge into a hamburger "healthy"?
Rachel Ray - A Legend or a Hype?
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Herbivores are quite important for the reef as they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
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She orders a plate of seafood, but redeems herself by smothering everything with olive oil, and we get down to business.
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smothering heat
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It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
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A loud parp and subdued groan from a cubicle to my left highlighted the need for such smothering background noises.
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Barrymore has the showier role and gives the more riveting performance, but that takes nothing away from Lange, who captures the smothering selfishness that was the flip side of Big Edie's determination to live life on her own terms.
Lange, Barrymore captivate in HBO's 'Grey Gardens'
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Cosmos, path-smothering nasturtium, stiff autumn crocus and clumps of busy Lizzie were in full bloom.
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Those fires have been fueled by a blistering heat wave that's smothering most of Europe.
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The storm never let up , continuing to swallow everything with smothering force.
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Not their beauty, not their particularity, just their smothering, deafening fecundity.
SACRAMENT
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On top of that, a ladleful of the thick yellow sauce, smothering the rice underneath a creamy rich layer, the soft striped texture of the chicken showing through.
The Kitchen Daughter
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But apparently all that had been masking the real smell of the place, which was this smothering fungoid stench.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
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White was sorely tempted by the smothering move 1.Nf7 + winning the exchange, and played it.
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On the contrary, she focused completely, almost smotheringly, on Ruth.
Enchantment
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Following a pounding by incoming waves, coral reefs in shallow water were then raked by a powerful backwash carrying heavy debris, including trees and cars, then covered with smothering sediments.
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A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.
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This was a clever tango, combining Argentine -- her ochos (stylized forward criss-cross steps) over his outstretched leg - with classical standard tango, but done in a humorous way that riffed on standard with the cartoonish Pepe le Peu-esque smotheringly cheek to cheek promenade runs and the ending slapstick dip which started out sexy until he "dropped" her, she rolling off his knee.
Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Reaches a New High By Showcasing Alvin Ailey
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As the steel was withdrawn he did open his mouth to call on his own, but a rug from the brychan was flung over his head, and a broad hand clamped it smotheringly into his open mouth.
His Disposition
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The first version was cold and rainy; the second was miserably hot, smotheringly muggy.
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A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.
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There's a gratinated brandade whose proportion of salt cod to potato was perhaps too meagre but it was delicious nonetheless; there's steak with a smothering of foie gras and gratin dauphinois.
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The most decidedly passionate female character in the book is a smothering, multi-eyed, hungry, very round spiderish monster, whose very roundness is her most disgusting characteristic.
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Matt let out an abnormally large snore and I imagined myself smothering him with his own pillow.
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The beds and bed-rooms, at night, present a smothering unaltering warmth.
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Herbivores are quite important for the reef because they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
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And my friend Lesley will go a bundle on the tip to take the brassy tones out of dyed blonde hair by smothering your head in tomato ketchup.
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Her depiction of the smothering, conniving and insufferable Ms. Iselin, mother to Raymond, earned the veteran actress the well-deserved distinction as one of the screen's most reviled villainesses.
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She did what had to be done, even if it was putting fire-smothering blankets in a cute, ceramic fireplug for stovetop use and selling them for 20 bucks at retail stores.
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The word palliate comes from the Latin palliare, “to cloak”—and providing pain relief was perceived as cloaking the essence of the illness, smothering symptoms rather than attacking disease.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Fire extinguishers are sturdy metal cylinders filled with water or a smothering material.
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It is so dense growing that it can make a bushy ground cover, great looking as well as saving work by smothering weeds.
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Concerned to limit the smothering, Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks, whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms, which he would change as often as 10 times a day.
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‘the state can sometimes become part of the problem, by smothering the enthusiasm of its citizens’.
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It does mean, though, that he runs the risk of smothering the most anodyne comment with the pillow of portent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without even asking Desdemona if it is true or not, Othello kills her by smothering her.
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To his right, a broad rhomboidal window provided a view of the thick cloud cover currently smothering the Amazon basin.
The Man Who Used the Universe
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Your official passion for evidence is gradually sapping your brilliant intellect and smothering your instincts.
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Bending over, she shoveled ashes over the coals, smothering all light.
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Concerned to limit the smothering, Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks, whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms, which he would change as often as 10 times a day.
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The score samples the most beautiful, evocative measures from Bernard Herrman's Vertigo score, counterpointing its predecessor's smothering romanticism with its own spare original orchestration.
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Removing or diminishing support now would be more akin to violently smothering someone in their sickbed than simply letting them die ‘gracefully.’
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Furthermore, logs provide persistent, exposed substrate where thalloid gametophytes can escape smothering by deciduous hardwood leaf litter.
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Not their beauty, not their particularity, just their smothering, deafening fecundity.
SACRAMENT
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The day before had started with midsummer Louisiana predictability, so smotheringly hot that the spongy air seemed to push down on Suzette as she hurried to the cookhouse after church.
Excerpt: Cane River by Lalita Tademy
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As if to correct the one or the other, he thrust his tongue into the nacreous coils of her ear, smothering all the while her breasts with his hands, lest their rocking motion somehow interfere with the process of correction.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Perhaps Tanya Reid could be caught in the act of smothering her baby to create the apneic spells.
Cruel Deception
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With heavy settlements along the shores of the Vembanad Lake, the tsunami would have had a smothering effect on the city.
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
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While there are some things about the "postmodern" critique of culture with which I agree, one of its most baneful conseqeunces is the way in which it has swept up what was postmodern fiction into its smothering arms and blocked our view of what this fiction is really like.
Postmodernism
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Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over the chairs, bumping against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went, there went he.
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When I was asked to cover a Territorial Army competition I jumped at the chance of donning Army fatigues and smothering my face in camouflage paint.
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If you quail at the thought of such cold comfort, then "The Cocktail Party" will likely strike you as smotheringly preachy.
I've Been to a Marvelous 'Party'
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Ice smothering, exposure during cold periods, diseases like anthracnose, and cultural practices like harvest during winterizing all seem to have been contributing factors.
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Darnell's sultriness is smothering and disturbing, elemental in the manner of King Vidor heroines.
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Soon everyone is drenching their pancakes with warm maple syrup or smothering them with berry-rich preserves.
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I was probably smothering them with love because of the nature of the subject matter.
The Sun
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Such sustained claustrophobic darkness made "2666" a smothering reading experience, but a slimmer work such as "The Skating Rink" published in English in 2009, 20 years after appearing in Spanish, also set on the Costa Brava, can be eerily hypnotizing, with flashes of toe-curling horror.
Threatening Weather on Menace Beach
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My bed is perfect, complete with smotheringly huge pillows and a wolf coverlet.
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Gone were the smothering rules and statutes of the Church.
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By analogy, although oxygen does not cause a fire, it is impossible for fire to burn in its absence, so one extinguishes a blaze by dousing it with water or smothering it, to prevent oxygen from reaching it.
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It was caused by intoxication from the combined effects of cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant; quetiapine, an antipsychotic; and the pain medications hydrocodone and acetaminophen, followed by smothering.
Leiby Kletzky Autopsy: Boy Was Given Drugs, Then Smothered
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She fought against sleep as long as she could, not wanting it to steal from her these precious moments when Raschid gave his strength un stintingly but the warmth of his body made her drowsy and her tormented senses were not proof against the smothering waves of sleep.
Falcon's Prey
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The big events are in the background, smotheringly powerful.
Film Structure
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The cause of death was strangulation although the pathologist could not rule out a smothering by a pillow.
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You can ` t tell the difference whether it ` s intentional smothering or positional asphyxiation, which is what SIDS is.
CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2008
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Like Mr. McDonagh's "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," which scored a similar success when the Atlantic produced it in 2006, "The Cripple of Inishmaan" is a snarlingly black comedy whose subject is stage-Irishness, the smotheringly quaint charm that continues to be used, in Ireland and elsewhere, to paper over the harsh realities of village life.
Two Looks at the Luck of the Irish
