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Sentence Examples Could early lawsuits against antipsychotics have had a stifling effect on developing clozapine? His lofty glance seemed to measure her from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes, leaving the girl stifling with self-consciousness. Before too long the air in the jeep was stifling, because of the cigarette smoke and alcohol. He said families with young children were the largest group to express their concern about the stifling weather. Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat for the last couple of days to queue for free handphone connections. The 40 student volunteers staggered through the stifling heat to the Lampert building over the course of two weeks. I wanted to ask how she had endured the frustration, the exasperation, the stifling air, the imprisonment. I really enjoy having, in my own home, an escape from those exhausting summer days of high temperatures and stifling humidity. The humidity in the summer can be stifling, which may explain why St. Louis ranks fourth in the nation in ice cream parlors. Policing performance targets set by the Government are stifling officers' ability to do their job, a report claims. After numerous reports about energy shortages and no heat, the orchestra's hotel rooms were stifling. There were prohibitive laws stifling the development of Mozambique's indigenous manufacturing industry. With their knowing artifice, the works achieved a stifling kind of perfection. So we covered our mouths, stifling silly giggles, petrified that the principal's paralyzing peepers would turn our way! Don't you crazy-ass people know that the studying environment is very stifling? But in the 19th century, this essential work was seriously disrupted by the strict sabbatarianism and stifling dominance of the church. But even if it cannot be taken to its logical conclusion, the precautionary principle can still have a stifling effect on society. Television and the print media present an image of prosperity and foster an intellectual atmosphere of stifling conformity. I had no idea what had passed between the two, but the negative vibe was stifling. Ellen opens his eyes to the stifling New York society in which he has always lived. Show More Sentences The continuing absence of a stifling religiosity is a great Australian virtue. Spinning the young boy lunged at the mast pole, stifling a cry as he felt his feet lose footing as he was dangling over the dark gaping ocean. Equally true, it is important not to over-react and introduce further layers of stifling bureaucracy in a series of panic measures. As much as he found managing a gym stifling, he has always been invigorated by the challenge of building a better gym from scratch. After the stifling incense-choked sanctimoniousness of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. His initial reaction is to escape from a stifling home environment, school bullies, and poverty. Jude and Tess contend with the stifling conventions of their society and are dealt with cruelly by it. Plato sees democracy as imposing stifling bureaucracy on gifted individuals. There was nothing, except for my distaste for the stifling culture of public school, that made the experience unusually unpleasant. Many have even denounced the traditional family as a stifling, patriarchal institution, thereby fueling a middle-class backlash. I watch men or women pushing carts heavily laden with their wares in searing temperatures, stifling humidity or drenching rain. Some people love hot weather, but I find it oppressive and stifling and generally unpleasant. Yesterday these tunnels and caverns had seemed wonderful, but now the walls felt stifling and oppressive. She is so over the top that her exuberant personality, so attractive at school, is now stifling. I had begun to find their intense flowery scent stifling and had the impression that they were causing my chesty cough. The tale begins quietly enough on a long-ago summer's day of stifling heat and scorching sunshine. It became a battle between Yeltsin's popularism and Gorbachev's stifling authority. The President's concentration of power is stifling his country's transition to democracy. It was a time when grown-ups made divinity in stifling hot kitchens and kids caught fireflies in Mason jars at dusk. Show More Sentences The Comte rushed to help her, and as she seemed to be stifling, cut her bodice open with his dagger, baring her shoulder. Stretching wide and stifling a yawn he threw back the several throws and duvets that covered him. This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing. Before feminism, stifling your personal ambitions in favor of doting on your husband was just a drawback to being a woman. As the blistering midday sun slowly arced across the powder-blue tropic skies, temperatures soared to stifling, triple-digit figures. The air in the carpeted area behind the lanes was becoming stifling as campers squished together with their duffels. The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable. The consumption of feces-contaminated water, the stifling heat, and the lack of supplies increased the sick list fearfully. What made it more impressive was the fact it came in a stifling humidity which saw fans sweating buckets just sat in the shade. The harsh regime resembled the worst British factories, except that it took place in a stifling and disease-ridden climate. It was the same distinguished guests, same idle chitchat, same stifling atmosphere of blue blood. Maria, to bring money to her family and escape a stifling existence in her small Colombian town, risks becoming a mule for a drug ring. An author can be in danger of stifling and muting their own work, taking from it any autonomous identity. Her work drew upon her own stifling upbringing and unhappy marriage to a chronically unfaithful husband. More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating. Finally the arts are now emancipated from the stifling cloak of puritanical hypocrisy. The cuts also meant air conditioning and fridges could not work in the stifling heat. Lanolin from greasy wool stains timber floors and walls and the smell of manure from beneath the shed becomes stifling. The languid, soupy air mass surrounded us and wrapped us in its stifling grip. You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air. Show More Sentences The temperature on that day was a stifling 37 degrees at noon in a few non-urban areas. Australia expect the Kuwaitis to play a stifling, defensive game and perhaps seek to pinch a goal on the break. In isolation, the stifling homogeny of the album doesn't come across as strongly, and the crooning doesn't get as tiresome. It is true that the ham-handed attempts by the Health Ministry to regulate this sector have now reached stifling bureaucratic proportions. On the low, dusty dry pitches, normally graveyards for seamers, he persevered in the stifling heat bowling off-cutters and holding up one end. Nonetheless, he understood the importance of the day, and stuck it out even though it was stifling hot in the un-air-conditioned auditorium. In stifling heat this was never going to be a vigorous or vibrant game, but we stuck at our task with discipline and brave reserves of energy. She said the educational system reinforces the idea that there is only one right answer, stifling creativity. Last night I went out and two ladies who were sitting at my table were stifling me with their perfume. It's a sad day when 90 minutes of football is all about stifling the yawns. I dumped my backpack at my feet and took his coat off because the heat was stifling. Ryan growled with exasperation and pulled the covers back over him, even though he was stifling hot. It's been a couple of weeks since I bought this one, and I'm sure mentioning it will have most people stifling yawns, but that's just tough! The system is now clearly stifling innovation and competition and needs to be radically changed. But this traps them into replacing one orthodoxy with another, stifling rather than expanding debate. The opening sequence paints a portrait of the quietus and quaintness of suburbia and the stifling boredom it can induce. And by distributing a new pattern of economic activity over a broad rural area, even while stifling growth, prisons create sprawl. The growing season starts a little late, but catches up with long days of sunshine and what can be stifling heat at the end of summer. Academia can be stifling for those who worry too much about convention. Rather than stifling innovation, this acqhire might see a cool startup in the hands of new leaders passionate about disrupting the car buying experience. Show More Sentences The monster tech firms are stifling competition and consolidating their power while they expand into new markets. A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat. Mrs Reynolds mused, stifling a grin with an effort as she recalled the master's decidedly windblown appearance at the breakfast room door the previous day. The withdrawal from participation means not merely a uniquely privileged identity but also a stifling of periodic urges to act, advise or take a hand in political affairs. The Wallabies have attained their status as world-beaters through their ability to keep the ball, their continuity stifling the life out of their opponents. He held his breath, stifling the cough that had lodged in his chest. His immediate impression was one of stifling heat and dim ruddy red light. Why ever would he want to go to Hampstead when he could be here with us partaking of our salubrious sea air and not out on some stifling heat-sodden moor? And nothing squelches education, or the desire for education, like stifling discourse. A name like that might ease some of the pressure of living under such a stifling state. In return they are charged by their social betters with stifling all forms of working class discontent that might endanger the interests of capital. She took one last look at the people still inside and then turned, stifling the tears and walked out, the door shutting behind her with a hollow click. Because otherwise social conventions and inequalities would be unbearably stifling and irksome, and terrible things and events would remain festering in our minds, unaired. The air in the natatorium was thick and stifling, as I knew it would be. The daytime temperature reached ninety degrees, and the feverish Clark was moved from the stifling leather lodge to a more comfortable shaded bower the crew made for him. Conversely, the shorter numbers are often stifling in their brevity. There are nights when I'm awake for hours at a time, left-to-right side maneuvering, stifling monster burps of food I've eaten over the span of three days. So tonight we all get to sit through a really long and boring event, stifling yawns and clapping dutifully as our bums go numb on hard wooden chairs. Come to think of it, both men are low-income stick-in-the-muds, hamstrung by past women, unable to escape dark, stifling homes, and psychologically unstable. The ground gave way as the plants pulled him down, knocking the wind out of his chest, and stealing the air he could have breathed by stifling him with their multitude. Show More Sentences The focus on job creation in the public sector in cities like Bradford is stifling growth in private industry, leading business chiefs have warned. As a result you are going to be stifling the activity of the most grassroots, casual type of political action, rather than that of the big press corporation. All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. In the stifling heat, tempers boiled over with depressing regularity. Summer in the city can be a sweaty, stifling, unpleasant time. I went outside to escape the stifling atmosphere and sat on the steps. The steady thump of drums beat a deadly rhythm in the stifling heat. In the afternoon we sit in the stifling press tent and try to work. The entrepreneurial spirit and social innovation fostered by a market economy has benefited many, and should not be overly encumbered by stifling regulations. The hallmark problem of a monopolist is its stifling effect on innovation. I guess I learned the lesson that too much inward focus can be stifling. The level of control exercised by the parties was absolutely stifling. I wish we could go outside instead of stifling in this tiny room. All the Tests lasted a full five days and were attended by a sizeable crowd despite stifling security, oppressive weather and poor facilities at the venues. And we have to answer that the politicians and their fixers are taking our money, hijacking our democracy, stifling debate and treating voters with contempt. The very stifling of debate has lent an air of urgency and relevance to the journal's function as a committed vehicle for pluralist theoretical debate. Parents who overprotect their children could be stifling their brain development and could even predispose them to future mental illness. From 9 in the morning until 9 at night, hardy fans cheered and moshed and staggered through a stifling but often exciting day. The copyright laws attempt to strike a balance between protecting original works and stifling further creativity. Protective masks were introduced after the war, but few workers wore them as they made them uncomfortable in the stifling conditions. Show More Sentences Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas, that you can find all over the City. Protectionist policies coupled with a weak drachma, stifling imports, allowed Greek industry to expand during the Great Depression. Smith considered the teaching at Glasgow to be far superior to that at Oxford, which he found intellectually stifling. It was after nine now, and the room, scented with the acrid smoke of Westfield's cheroot, was stifling hot. You might think the persnickety rules of writing a Shakespearean sonnet, say, or a rondeau in iambic tetrameter, would be stifling. It was the beauty of the opponent's sticky, stifling, halfcourt matchup defense. Don't miss out on the aftershave balm and lotion because they add to the depth of the layers without stifling it. Micromanagers are on the low end of the spectrum as they have to be on all the time, stifling creativity while constantly forwarding things for thoughts and consideration. Citing the stifling 'indie band' format and the pressure for megastardom status as the main reasons for calling time on the outfit, they threw themselves into solo projects. But he went on to urge the Bank of England to stick to its gradualistic approach in raising interest rates and not risk stifling the economic recovery. Fierce government repression, philosophical individualism, and the myth and transient reality of the frontier have played bit parts in stifling American leftism, Iton admits. The dissemination and portrayal of knowledge were considered by authorities to be vital to communism's survival by stifling alternative concepts and critiques. A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel. In the competitive pipe band community, some bands are starting to find the competitive system musically stifling, although it does demand high standards. The stifling air wafted westerly on lazy breezes from the desert heightens the impression of extreme temperature, while the desert dust helps to create a mysterious darkness. Examples from Classical Literature I can ride anything but a buckjumper, and boss the shepherds, and I do love the life, no stifling in fields and copses! The moon was overcast, and the atmosphere stifling and oppressive, precursory of a thunderstorm. The student who has not succeeded in stifling it is lost for ever to erudition. It became so stifling that Augustine ran out of spit and was forced to lick her lips. The world was stifling in a deluge of gray, cold mists, unstirred by a breath of air. To the stifling submission of the sweatshop or the desperation of the streets! The atmosphere was stifling as a night in the rains by reason of the steam and the crowd. The passenger, who was a plethoric, sanguineous man, felt as if he were stifling. Neither Constantine nor Constantius had succeeded in stifling the Donatist heresy. I'm surprised that you've been slogging away in London all through the stifling summer. It is the Crimea, children, and the Crimea on a broiling, stifling August day. Miss asked for her smelling salts, and declared the place was stifling. He raised him, almost stifling him as he drew him through the aperture, at the risk of flaying him in the passage. It had been too stifling, too cramping, the burden had been too agonising. The stifling and devitalized air set their nerves on edge, as it were. The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible. A trait of Duse is the stifling of her tears when her sister visits her. In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. The maximum of stifling and of agony passed, and, although he was still weak and giddy, he tottered in the direction of the house and of Nalasu. It promised to be a glorious day, and London was stifling and gritty. Show More Sentences The first thing he was aware of was a strong and stifling smell of sewage. But their humour, like the odor and smoke of gunjah, was become stifling. Shut up under the stifling roof of a khan, you will sicken and die. The heat in the windless underbrush, alive with insects, was stifling. Through the air was wafted the cheap and stifling scent of patchouli. Instantly, with a rasp of thunder, it was gone, and the air was stifling. The heated air was filled and stifling with resinous exhalations. I mused fantastically, afterwards at home, stifling the living pang of my heart with fantastic dreams. The hot, searching, stifling African day took possession of the world. It was a low room, and though not many were present, the air was stifling. He raised his arms to heaven, he was stifling with envy and vexation. She had sat stifling in the room many a warm day because her patient was sure that open windows gave people cold. The city, hot as an oven, seemed to swelter in the stifling night. If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling. With a final vicious cuff he knocked the child into a far corner of the tent, where she lay stifling her moans, while The Sheik paced to and fro muttering to himself. Brimming with youthful hubris, she dreams of fleeing the stifling Karoo valley, where her ancestors have lived and died for decades, and of becoming a singer in Johannesburg. Occasionally, instead of stifling individuality, religion actually redefines individuality, such that a person finds happiness and self-expression in pain. So, stifling a natural regret at the thought of the home comforts he would leave behind him, he said stoutly, Bless your soul, I'm not superannuated yet. The answering silence, and the dull resonance of the locker to his voice, supplementing the stifling quality of the air, set going a new train of ideas. So, setting about it as methodically as men might smoke out a wasps' nest, the Martians spread this strange stifling vapour over the Londonward country. Find more words! 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