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
• Some had been suffocated, shot in the head or dumped with their hands still tied.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Off the bench, Williams played suffocating defense at the top of USC’s press.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Smoke - and then flames - filled the car, suffocating Awan and burning him from his feet up.
  — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2019
• Mulch too close or over the crown can help diseases take hold or slowly suffocate the plant.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
• Police say Bell suffocated the 75-year-old on Friday and then placed her body in the trunk of her own car.
  — CBS News, 17 July 2019
• 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
• Anyone there for the genre, for the action, would just be suffocating.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
• Those blooms rob the water of oxygen and can suffocate and harm aquatic life.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2020
• As my daughter rolls me behind the couch, the space bears down, threatening to suffocate and crush me.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• 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
• The man began to throw up and suffocate, according to the report.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 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
• The hard part, given the salary cap suffocating the Avs, is that Colorado doesn’t just need Landeskog back.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 23 May 2024
• Four of the victims had been suffocated and had been strangled.
  — Fox News, 19 Feb. 2020
• His job is to play suffocating defense and make open shots.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
• If a slurry of ash and sediment is thick enough, fish will suffocate in the water.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 22 June 2020
• Also, if any filling was done, the fill can suffocate the roots if more than a few inches were applied.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• The roots circle around the edge of the pot and turn back toward the center, eventually wrapping around the trunk and suffocating the tree.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2024
• 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
• The smell is suffocating, the smell of stale cigarette smoke, bad food, wet clothes, the smell of the old woman’s dread and worry and wheezing, the awful smell of poverty.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Sep. 2024
• Too much precipitation can saturate the soil by displacing air and oxygen, which suffocates trees and shrubs.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024