Suffocate in a sentence

A worldwide tech blackout would suffocate human civilization entirely into submission.

Concerning developing countries, where food shortages suffocate the populace, the amount of wasted food would drastically help feed those hundred million people suffering from malnourishment.

He says Max knows he’ll suffocate if he tries to breathe with the Switchblade, and “Rock Hard” Juice Robinson calls Friedman to the ring, promising he can wear his little Halloween costume to come and face them like a man.

While at the hospital, the father searched online for “brain damage signs in newborn”, “how long can a baby go without oxygen” and “how long can a newborn take to suffocate”.

A Texas man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempting to transport or smuggle 101 undocumented migrants, including 12 children, in a locked semi-trailer in which at least two occupants feared they were going to suffocate.

Austin explained that as the seas warm and essential grazers like sea urchins and reef fish populations fall prey to disease and over-fishing, algae levels increase and literally suffocate the corals.

He'd been beaten and bludgeoned around the back of the head and was left to slowly suffocate, with the cause of death identified as asphyxiation.

It’s said it was there he sat and watched her suffocate until she died.

Once known as “the strangling angel of children,” it causes its young victims to slowly and painfully suffocate, turn blue and gasp as a thick film fills their throat.

She said: "Many of us wouldn't ever dream of eating kitten and chips for dinner yet fish are being routinely hauled out of their ocean homes and they suffocate and they're battered alive, just for a fleeting moment of taste.

So, over and over, with their David Brent machismo and their talent for inertia, officials and executives created the conditions in which terrified children would suffocate in the arms of their dying mothers.

The recording shows the older child using bedding to suffocate her cousin as the younger girl slept in the top bunk, Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee’s statement said.

He signed an executive order to suffocate us all in our masks because some did not obey and went to the beaches.

Their foot soldiers will do all they can to suffocate any chance of a Zionist revival.

He regretted ignoring warnings from fellow council members that the police would use their presence as a pretext to “suffocate” the village by setting up roadblocks and issuing traffic fines.

If you sleep on your stomach, the last thing you want is an enveloping memory foam – it would literally suffocate you.

The Pats defense was doing what it does most weeks – suffocate the other team, and win some turnovers.

Washington’s stated objective is to suffocate the island economically, pressuring for a change to Cuba’s political system and, in addition, sap Venezuela’s socialist government of an ally.

We have seen the negative direction of the anti-people agenda, through the depressing policies to suffocate Nigerians.

We’re bringing on a death-spiral of distrust — and I fear that in the 2020s and beyond, grifters peddling alternative facts may come to suffocate us all.