On this page you'll find 6 example sentences with Asphyxiating. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as breathless and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Asphyxiating meaning
- Causing asphyxiation; depriving living beings of the ability to breathe.
- Restrictive; stifling; preventing emotional or behavioral expression.
- Overwhelming; breathtaking.
Synonyms of Asphyxiating
Using Asphyxiating
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing asphyxiation; depriving living beings of the ability to breathe. | Restrictive; stifling; preventing emotional or behavioral expression. | Overwhelming; breathtaking.
- Useful related words include: breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal.
- In the example corpus, asphyxiating often appears in combinations such as: asphyxiating gas.
Context around Asphyxiating
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Asphyxiating
- In this selection, "asphyxiating" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, slowly, gas, heat and poisonous stand out and add context to how "asphyxiating" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include co2 an asphyxiating gas that and filled with asphyxiating gas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "asphyxiating" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with asphyxiating
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Geneva Protocol regulates poisonous and asphyxiating to those its interwar framers had experienced. (14 words)
Unable to locate Quaid, Cohaagen shuts down the ventilation to Venusville, slowly asphyxiating its citizens. (15 words)
Environmentalists also say that the transportation and injection of CO2 — an asphyxiating gas that displaces oxygen — could lead to dangerous leaks. (21 words)
Elsewhere in Italy, public transport workers demanded air-conditioned vehicles, and workers at a battery plant in Abruzzo issued a strike threat in protest at the imposition of working in “asphyxiating heat”. (32 words)
A general concern over the use of poison gas manifested itself in 1899 at the Hague Conference with a proposal prohibiting shells filled with asphyxiating gas. (26 words)
It prohibits the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare". (23 words)
Example sentences (6)
Elsewhere in Italy, public transport workers demanded air-conditioned vehicles, and workers at a battery plant in Abruzzo issued a strike threat in protest at the imposition of working in “asphyxiating heat”.
Environmentalists also say that the transportation and injection of CO2 — an asphyxiating gas that displaces oxygen — could lead to dangerous leaks.
The Geneva Protocol regulates poisonous and asphyxiating to those its interwar framers had experienced.
A general concern over the use of poison gas manifested itself in 1899 at the Hague Conference with a proposal prohibiting shells filled with asphyxiating gas.
It prohibits the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare".
Unable to locate Quaid, Cohaagen shuts down the ventilation to Venusville, slowly asphyxiating its citizens.
Common combinations with asphyxiating
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: