How to Use suffocate in a Sentence

suffocate

verb

• The poor dog could suffocate in the car on a hot day like this.
• Don't put your head in a plastic bag—you could suffocate.
• For the record: Maze’s plan is to let her soul slowly suffocate and die.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 May 2021
• Too much of one, and the business will race off a cliff, and too much of the other, and the business will suffocate.
  — George Deeb, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• Off the bench, Williams played suffocating defense at the top of USC’s press.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The effect is suffocating, as if the walls are closing in.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• From there, the Wolverines used their suffocating defense to close the game.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2023
• Oh, and the nation of Canada is trying to suffocate us.
  — Once Again, Vulture, 15 June 2023
• In the Kings’ loss to Nashville, they were suffocated at even strength and had their four-game winning streak snapped.
  — Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2024
• Hart fought back as Emery punched her several times, tried to suffocate her and then stabbed her in the buttocks.
  — Garrett Andrews, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2021
• It’s made from a cotton blend that’ll keep you warm without the suffocating side effects of an itchy wool knit.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• The angle of the sleeper can allow infants to roll over, or fall forward, and suffocate.
  — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Rather than die slowly suffocating with their children, the women opened the window and were told to come out.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• There also could be a ban of those shifts that have helped suffocate offenses.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021
• Diatoms pump oxygen into the lakes as well—without them, the lakes would suffocate.
  — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• As bright green plumes of toxic algae spread over Lake Erie in the summer of 2014, suffocating one of the largest lakes on earth, reporter Dan Egan was there.
  — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 17 Apr. 2023
• So as a suffocating heat wave blanketed the state, the trucks were their homes and the shade beneath the bridge their principal relief.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• These blooms suffocate the fish, aquatic plants, and carnivorous plants that live in the water.
  — Sarah Jay, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
• Submerging them in soapy water to suffocate the larvae is a way to control them.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2024
• In one of the film’s trailers, Alice attempts to suffocate herself by wrapping her head in Saran Wrap.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• Social media are awash with appeals for oxygen as more and more people suffocate from the advance of the virus.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• When tree trimmers climb the palm trunks and cut fronds from below, those fronds can suddenly slough downward and pin and suffocate the tree trimmer against the trunk.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2021
• The future will belong to those who give their people the ability to breathe free, not those who seek to suffocate their people with an iron hand.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2021
• This reduces the dissolved oxygen in the water body and can suffocate and kill the organisms within.
  — Quartz, 19 July 2022
• When that failed to kill him, Reilly said, Montano used a garbage bag to try to suffocate him and finally pressed a Bible on top of Nixon’s face as the victim lay on his back.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Dolphins need to use the bye week to figure out a solution to the run-game struggles as there will come a point in the final month when the anemic run game will suffocate the offense.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• Despite having a pointy toe, these heels are very flexible and won’t suffocate your feet.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2023
• Working in greenhouses in the dry heat of southern Israel was suffocating, but Yo grew to love her life.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The film is named after a coffee-house for passionate chess players in the heart of Athens, which has become a refuge for those who suffocate in modern life.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 25 May 2022
• Trail runners should look for a vest-style hydration pack with a snug-but-not suffocating fit that doesn’t bounce during runs.
  — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024