Use smother in a sentence
Sentences ending with smother
- Sit down--" The words had fallen on her ears with a cold, deadly smother. [11]
- On the stockade walls grass grew, as though where men will not live like men Nature labours to smother. [11]
- It was being overpowered by vast elements, and life and being were atrophied in a deadly smother. [11]
- He accounts for her, of course; he's probably the unconscious transmitter of qualities the Puritans possessed and tried to smother. [9]
- Her abrupt silence came upon him like the last engulfing wave to a drowning man--the final assurance of the end, in which there is quiet and the deadly smother. [11]
- I got a boat's crew together, and away we went in that deadly smother. [11]
- She might have been Spanish, or Italian, or Roumanian, or Slav, though nothing of her Indian blood showed in purely Indian characteristics, and something sparkled in her, gave a radiance to her face and figure which the storm and struggle in her did not smother. [11]
More example sentences with the word smother in them
- There was going to be trouble; but that monstrous Holmes rose up, wobbling his double chins, and says he, 'Order, gentlemen; the first man that draws, I'll lay down on him and smother him! [5]
- After a little the smother lifted slowly from his brain. [11]
- My feelings I smother, but thou hast been the cause of this anguish, my--upon my word,' said Mr Swiveller, checking himself and falling thoughtfully into the client's chair, 'I should like to know how they use her! [12]
- Why should He smother one under heaps of gold, while He gave thousands of poor creatures too little to satisfy their hunger! [10]
- She tried to smother every thought concerning the past. [11]
- In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. [2]
- They raised their pile of dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke out in a storm of joy-clamors. [5]
- If she would only speak altogether in that beloved language, he could smother much malice. [11]
- From the beginning of the Dreyfus case to the end of it all France, except a couple of dozen moral paladins, lay under the smother of the silent-assertion lie that no wrong was being done to a persecuted and unoffending man. [5]
- He muffled his mouth in his long silken beard as if to smother what he felt impelled to say, then suddenly rose and left the table. [11]
- He did not hold enough to smother the cravings of his superhuman appetite. [5]
- Here Nature hides her internal striving under a smother of white for many months in every year, when what is now gold in the sun will be a soft--sometimes, too, a hard-shining coverlet like impacted wool. [11]
- She clasped her hand over her brow, and gazed, speechless, into her lap as though she wished to smother some pain. [10]
- Thee would go far to smother it for me; and I was not so ungrateful to thee. [11]
- So 'gainst the deadly smother he could press With calm his lofty manhood; interpose Purpose divine, and at the last disclose For life's great shift a regnant readiness. [11]
- Had her moment come when she could force him to smother his scorn and wait at her door for bounty? [11]
- Some day I'll buy enough to smother you in 'em. [9]
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