How To Use Suffocation In A Sentence
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By offering protection, not suffocation, Europe could set an example for the world in the best way to foster digital innovation.
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It also banned the practice of transporting pepper-sprayed suspects in a prone position, saying the practice could contribute to suffocation.
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But if the bowels are loose, with bilious discharges, tormina, vomitings, a feeling of suffocation, and gnawing pains, it is best to enjoin repose, and to drink hydromel, and avoid vomiting.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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The playwright contrasts the suffocation of village society with the vastness of the sea that both creates and destroys.
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The most severe allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock, can kill through suffocation.
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Its especial sphere of usefulness is in severe cases of electric shock, hanging, smoke asphyxia, strangulation, suffocation, thoracic or abdominal pressure, apnea, acute traumatic pneumothorax, respiratory arrest from absence of sufficient oxygen, or apnea from the presence of quantities of irrespirable or irritant gases.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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The sesamoides purges upwards when pounded in oxymel to the amount of a drachm and a half, and drunk; it is combined with the hellebores, to the amount of the third part, and thus it is less apt to produce suffocation.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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Why had I not seen that all Buddy's foolery, his flatulence, his stumbles, his bad memory, and his popeyed look of suffocation signified that he had only days left?
Beard
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And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)
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The majority of these deaths resulted from suffocation or strangulation caused by entrapment of the child's head in various structures of the bed.
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It was his opinion that the injury was evidence of suffocation or smothering.
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The combined feelings of suffocation and claustrophobia caused her to feel the worst terror she had ever experienced.
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Such a convulsion is the struggle of gradual suffocation, as in drowning; and, in the original Opium Confessions, I mentioned a case of that nature communicated to me by a lady from her own childish experience.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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German Stickstoff ` choke-damp, 'further calqued to Hebrew hanqán from héneq ` suffocation').
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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The spacious galleries were crowded to suffocation by beautiful Southern belles in festive attire.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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To measure the flagrancy of this statement, imagine if the Commission had chosen to advocate against all crib use based on the occurrences of accidental strangulation, suffocation, or SIDS death associated with solitary sleep.
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The playwright himself thought her brave and true to her exceptional self, straining against the suffocation of modern life.
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In a person affected with fever, when there is no swelling in the fauces, should suffocation suddenly come on, and the patient not be able to swallow, except with difficulty, it is a mortal symptom.
Aphorisms
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We went up a flight of stairs crammed to suffocation by people eagerly waiting for the hall doors to open.
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The most common cause of fish kills in Ohio is suffocation due to lack of oxygen.
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Infants who cannot yet lift their heads are especially at risk for suffocation and strangulation.
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Her sense of suffocation is intensified by her grimy surroundings Alaska's natural glories go undescribed by Mr. Vann—they're always blocked by fog and by the conviction that her daughter, Rhoda, is repeating her mistake.
Icy State Of Affairs
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Trapped in an eddy Graham was retrieved from the barrel badly bruised, just before he almost died of suffocation.
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The use of water to produce suffocation was less common than the use of water to produce stomach distention to my knowledge.
Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
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Jew would rather die than labor on the sabbath; the Persian would endure suffocation, before he would blow the fire with his breath; the Indian places supreme perfection in besmearing himself with cow-dung, and pronouncing mysteriously the word Aum; * the Mussulman believes he has expiated everything in washing his head and arms; and disputes, sword in hand, whether the ablution should commence at the elbow, or finger ends; ** the Christian would think himself damned, if he ate flesh instead of milk or butter.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
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But the need to break clear from the suffocation of reverent togetherness is not just a matter of philosophical self-respect.
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Examples of abuse include punches, kicks, blows and partial suffocation by placing a rubber gas mask over the person's face.
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Plastic bags can be a suffocation danger for babies and small children and wrapping paper and cellophane are easy to slip on.
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With two zipped pockets for your goodies and a low cut collar to stop suffocation of the body, this breathable body warmer flatters the body with a slim fit and elasticated drawcord back hem.
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However, if we look at the details of nocturnal sexual molestations, whether by the Devil, demons, or incubi, as described in trial confessions, we find little mention of paralysis, inarticulacy, suffocation, or chest pressure.
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Of course plastics like cast polycarprolactone, thermoplastic, and self-lubricating plastic, by their facility for organic cellular suffocation, repel us while effecting disorientation.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God
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Many of these women saw motherhood as a form of suffocation - a socially accepted way of being buried alive.
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The thought of chapped hands and chilblains was almost terrifying, and his heart sank at sight of the double storm-windows, which he knew were solidly fastened and unraisable, while the small ventilating panes, the size of ladies 'handkerchiefs, smote him with sensations of suffocation.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER
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If the disease is not arrested, the patient generally dies from suffocation, by the lungs filling up, hepatized, or abscess and ulceration come on, and then what is called "quick
An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
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My health was not yet re-established; I decayed visibly, was pale as death, and reduced to an absolute skeleton; the beating of my arteries was extreme, my palpitations were frequent: I was sensible of a continual oppression, and my weakness became at length so great, that I could scarcely move or step without danger of suffocation, stoop without vertigoes, or lift even the smallest weight, which reduced me to the most tormenting inaction for a man so naturally stirring as myself.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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Yes, our marriage took place in a castle whose dungeons were once crowded to suffocation with unfortunate natives, awaiting the auction block and the white traders from Europe and America.
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The book begins with a minor embassy official who is murdered by suffocation from a python, whilst sitting in a locked car full of poisonous spitting vipers, just in case the python gave up before completing the job.
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New emotions were beginning to show, notably aggression and fear of suffocation.
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There is none of the sense of suffocation that was once a feature of general anaesthesia.
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_ -- Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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The authors believe that sofa sharing may cause asphyxial suffocation.
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No very definite custom or practice seems to be followed; the most common is, that several matrons preside as midwives in the lodge of the parturient, which is, especially in delayed cases, filled to suffocation with indifferently solicitous (?) relations and friends.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Those who had secured the shelter offered by the solitary marquee and who, notwithstanding the irrespirable and filthy atmosphere, considered possible suffocation and the danger of fire to be preferable to the drenching rain, were confronted with a new and far more terrifying menace.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben
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With all the heat, humidity and suffocation, no matter how hard I try to fall asleep, it remains a distant dream.
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The painting elicits the viewer's identification with her weariness and suffocation in an intimate way.
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While the patient's condition is not curable, providing oxygen can relieve the patient's subjective feeling of suffocation caused by decreased levels of oxygen in the blood.
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The term hysteria was coined by Hippocrates, who thought that suffocation and madness arose in women whose uteri had become too light and dry from lack of sexual intercourse and, as a result, wandered upward, compressing the heart, lungs, and diaphragm.
Kiwiblog
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Sorry, but cuddly stuffed animals -- another infant suffocation danger --- should get evicted.
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The images in the nightmare had been vivid, but what had been more vivid had been the sensation of suffocation and sheer helplessness.
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Citizens found themselves squeezed to suffocation in one way or another between domestic repression and exogenous vilification.
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Even if they survive those patients undergoing suffocation are suffering unacceptable and repeated abuse.
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If a person laboring under a fever, without any swelling in the fauces, be seized with a sense of suffocation suddenly, it is a mortal symptom.
Aphorisms
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Growing up in East Germany, the Chancellor witnessed first-hand the economic suffocation of communism.
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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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Or, if you be daring enough to take a light from the flamer while he flames, you spoil your tobacco, foul your mouth, and get a taste of sulphur-suffocation such as Asmodeus might have were he to take a whiff of a smoke-and-fire belching chimney in the Black Country as he flies across that district by night.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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Some of our patients with suffocation or hypoxaemia induced by epilepsy might have died without a definite diagnosis and appropriate management.
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They may wake from sleep with great fear, agitation and anxiety and a sense of suffocation like in Lachesis.
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Whether moving grain or working in the grain bin, there's always a danger of suffocation or respiratory problems.
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Three fourths of the deaths were caused by entrapment in the bed structure leading to suffocation or strangulation.
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The number of reported suffocation deaths in cribs fell from 192 to 107, the number of reported deaths in adult beds increased from 152 to 391, and the number of reported deaths on sofas or chairs increased from 33 to 110.
Medpundit
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When taken out of the water the fish really dies of suffocation, for the water that enters its throat and flows out through the gills is the air that keeps it alive.
How Sammy Went to Coral-Land
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Such love will drown him in suffocation, pain and despair.
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A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died of suffocation, according to police.
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There are between 70 and 150 deaths per year in the UK caused by suffocation, heart failure or choking on vomit.
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They carry out rapes, massacres, suffocations, torture and terror.
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Conclusion Fetal distress may injure the cardiac function, no matter newborns suffocation.
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She cannot come to terms with the unkindnesses she experiences or hears about, nor the countless suffocations of poverty.
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The other occupant in the house had died of suffocation of smoke.
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At the stadium in October 1934, the gangways were 'packed to suffocation'.
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But I still have that feeling of suffocation, that my lungs are clawing at the air for a breath.
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Babies can die of suffocation when their airways are obstructed by lying against their mother - a phenomenon known as 'overlying'.
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Those quinsies are most dangerous, and most quickly prove fatal, which make no appearance in the fauces, nor in the neck, but occasion very great pain and difficulty of breathing; these induce suffocation on the first day, or on the second, the third, or the fourth.
The Book Of Prognostics
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But Ibsen himself thought her brave and true to her exceptional self, straining against the suffocation of modern life.
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Police Sort Through Suspect's Account as He Pleads Not Guilty in Killing Charles S. Hirsch, the chief medical examiner, said the cause of death was not just suffocation, but also "intoxication by the combined effects of cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxant), quetiapine (antipsychotic), hydrocodone (pain medication), and acetaminophen (Tylenol).
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