Smother in a sentence

Cartwright had to be alert to deny Maddox following a fortuitous bounce of the ball, but Grimsby’s shot-stopper was out quickly to smother.

He put his youngest daughter's body in an oil tank before returning to the truck and using the same blanket to smother Bella, his eldest daughter.

He was referring to Collingwood vice-captain Brayden Maynard and his decision jump into Melbourne’s Angus Brayshaw in a clumsy attempt to smother the ball.

I mustn’t smother my pudding in eggs.

Letting bygones be bygones, Carr trusted Olave on the Saints’ final play, targeting him a 15th time, only for a Jags cornerback to smother the wideout on a short fade route.

Rather than smother the slope with houses, Duggan planned five little towers of flats, five to seven storeys high, between and around which the landscape can flow.

Sedimentation can obstruct sunlight and smother the tiny animals who make up a coral reef, ultimately harming its growth and health.

We allowed her to smother us in her red lipstick before politely shimmying out of her grasp, stumbling up the stairs, and swinging upon the always-unlocked door.

As the clamour for interest rate cuts intensifies amid manageable inflation, the BoC’s commitment to high rates is an overdose of prudence, guided by rigid dogma that threatens to smother vibrancy and innovation – the very growth it claims to safeguard.

He said: "Choose to grow ground cover plants instead, these are attractive plants that naturally smother weeds.

Smother your hands in the gel when you get off the Tube and definitely use it if you feel you must eat during your journey.

The autistic self-advocates describe a coercive practice that forces kids to smother who they are for the comfort of those around them.

The cattle ranching industry wants to smother the potential for meat alternatives, likely because it sees Gen Z habits including Meatless Mondays and “” diets as something that will only grow in the decades ahead.

And around the world, it’s carrying not just sickness and death but also the anxiety and paralysis that can smother economic growth.

Clare almost got in for a goal soon after as Ryan Taylor broke through but brave defending from Enda Rowland and Diarmuid Conway combined to smother the chance.

Demonstrators there carried posters that read “Don’t smother the children” and “Let kids be kids.

I know of no woman who has not at least some of the time allowed that feeling to prevail, to smother her impulse to speak.

Its houses of faith — mosques, churches, temples and shrines — have become a front line in the battle by governments to smother the spread of a deadly global virus.

Moroccan men, wearing a protective face masks, in a street in Tangiers' Old City after an earlier announcement of lockdown measures in the northern port city to smother the novel coronavirus outbreak.

No matter their seed, the Cougars’ stingy defense can smother anyone.