How to Use suffocating in a Sentence

suffocating

adjective

• The hours passed and even my sports bra and loose tank top became suffocating.
  — Meryl Davis, SELF, 30 May 2018
• To be an artist or a creator and not having been able to put an album out is very much suffocating.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 5 June 2018
• The strength of the Midshipmen has been a suffocating defense.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• At age 17, there are only so many ways a high school student can flee a suffocating life.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• The strategy against Joshua, Robles and Ruiz said, will be to cut off the ring and be as suffocating as possible.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
• More Tigers news: Fulmer wouldn’t last much longer in the suffocating upper-90 degree heat, pulled after two outs in the third inning.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2017
• The Bills will lean upon their suffocating defense, looking to shut down the Steelers.
  — Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 12 Dec. 2019
• The suffocating Senators are up first and have home ice, but if Marchand can get on a roll and pile up the points, Boston won’t be an easy out for anyone.
  — Stephen Whyno, The Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2017
• And sparked by batters going for the fences to beat suffocating shifts, strikeouts set a record for the 12th year in a row and outnumbered hits for the second straight season.
  — Ronald Blum, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
• So the suffocating social milieu is defused by the mature perspective of a man who has survived to tell the tale.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The suffocating conditions did nothing to slow down UCF, which scored touchdowns on three of its first six possessions to start the game.
  — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• But living there, for me, was a little bit suffocating.
  — Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The Badgers are grinding out wins with a suffocating defense and power run game that could propel them to a Big Ten title.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• While both the flare shape and leather pants are nothing new, the combo of the two looks like a breezier, less suffocating way to wear the otherwise usually stiff fabric.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
• Here yet again was more, and more politically useful, proof that the closet is a toxic and suffocating place that can twist the soul.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• Suddenly, the Capitals are a suffocating defensive team that clogs the middle of the ice and makes even the fastest of opponents look slow.
  — Stephen Whyno, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2018
• The Panthers watched their 18-point fourth-quarter lead dissipate down to two thanks to the Boxers’ suffocating press defense.
  — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2020
• Miller’s defense was so suffocating that Bondy’s attack didn’t take its first shot at the goal until over three minutes had elapsed from the first-period clock.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2019
• Europeans and tourists alike jumped into fountains, lakes, rivers, or the sea to escape a suffocating heat wave rising up from the Sahara.
  — Natasha Livingstone, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
• Indeed, there appears to be growing recognition in the White House of the suffocating cost of these disasters.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
• The state continues to be ever-present and suffocating for Cubans seeking changes beyond the safety of business.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2016
• On those hot summer days, a lightweight style of summer suits for men is key for that polished and comfortable (ahem, non-suffocating) look.
  — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• Not as suffocating, however, as the crypt below, the Pantheon of the Kings, where the monarchs—and far too many of their infant children—have found their final resting place.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 June 2019
• The Golden Knights trudged their way through the 2023 playoff bracket thanks to a suffocating defensive system.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• Temperature records fell across Europe last week as a suffocating heat wave swept up from the Sahara.
  — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
• And both teams can play suffocating defense at times although Michigan’s has been much better than MSU’s down the stretch including in the two meetings between the two teams.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2018
• Its corals have been decimated by the suffocating clouds of sand and sediment churned up by speedboats.
  — NBC News, 31 May 2018
• The Gamecocks had reeled off three consecutive 11-win seasons thanks in large part to a suffocating defense.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 17 July 2017
• For him as for most playwrights, the conjoint themes of society and self — twined in an embrace that is intimate yet suffocating — are the basis of all great theater.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• Following the death of her brother as a teenager, Kayla has looked for a way out from under the suffocating expectations of her mother.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024