Use stifle in a sentence
Sentences ending with stifle
- Some prudent person had torn the door off the hinges that they might not stifle. [10]
More example sentences with the word stifle in them
- Try as she would to stifle her anxiety, it obtruded itself, and she could eat no breakfast. [11]
- And no one who has not experienced that environment can have any conception of the pressure it exerted to stifle originality, to thrust the new generation into its religious and commercial moulds. [9]
- What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about which he always deceived himself. [2]
- Barbara preferred to walk beside hers, for clouds had darkened the sky; it had become oppressively sultry, and she felt as if she would stifle in the close, swaying box. [10]
- But I wish to stifle, not to fan, the spark which perhaps has already fallen into your heart. [10]
- I have remained quiet long enough; I shall stifle here. [10]
- In the crowd people began talking loudly, to stifle their feelings of pity as it seemed to Pierre. [2]
- Perhaps, however, he might have induced her to go with him had not his father-in-law made his debts a snare, which he drew whenever it was necessary to stifle his wishes, and he, too, wanted to retain his daughter at home. [10]
- He fancied that his torturing thoughts would stifle him in the gloom where even fresh air was denied him. [10]
- Only, and once for all, he must know the truth, know the worst, stifle all these insistent doubts and subtle hopes and jealous fancies, and kill the past by knowing truly what Bess had been to Oldring. [13]
- Something in Abe's eyes overwhelmed her--something she had never seen before, and it seemed to stifle speech in her. [11]
- Its gigantic limbs extended over the whole firmament, and seemed striving to clutch and stifle the world beneath. [10]
- But if hatred and arrogance do not stifle in your breast the one feeling that still unites us--love for our people, the day will come when you will voluntarily approach and, unasked, by the free impulse of your heart, call me 'Joshua. [10]
- Our aunt had always used an open carriage, and was really convinced that she would stifle in a closed railway compartment. [10]
- But it is a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. [2]
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