Use stifled in a sentence
Sentences ending with stifled
- Amusing as this Shaker caricature of the Friends was, it oppressed Ruth beyond measure; and increased her feeling of being stifled. [5]
- He felt stifled. [11]
Sentences containing stifled two or more times
- The mean and sordid aspect of Fowler Street emphasized and seemed to typify my despair, the pungent coal smoke stifled my lungs even as it stifled my spirit. [9]
More example sentences with the word stifled in them
- It was she who proposed going to the base-ball game, and the painter stifled a sigh and acquiesced. [9]
- I realized, then, what a creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. [5]
- The maiden who was the subject of this whispering, whose purport only a loving glance from the Lady Wendula revealed, pressed her hand upon her heart, whose impetuous throbbing stifled her breath. [10]
- On his way through the streets Pierre felt stifled by the smoke which seemed to hang over the whole city. [2]
- Half stifled in the one, they mounted in the other eight stories, while they tried to keep their self-respect under the gaze of the superintendent, which they felt was classing and assessing them with unfriendly accuracy. [8]
- She had stifled the leap of her wrath, but for perhaps the first time in her life a bitter derision curled her lips. [13]
- The bustle and terror of the Rostovs' last days in Moscow stifled the gloomy thoughts that oppressed Sonya. [2]
- Vargas's troopers had stifled even the last breath of resistance. [10]
- How he had stifled and scrambled mowing hay in those lofts! [4]
- Is that irresistible power, which for fifty years has shaken the government and agitated the people, to be stifled and subdued by pretending that it is an exceedingly simple thing, and we ought not to talk about it? [7]
- Suddenly she had pierced the hard layers of the outer shell, and had heard the imprisoned spirit crying with a small persistent voice,--a spirit stifled for many years and starved--and yet it lived and struggled still. [9]
- With a choice of evils he should have preferred walking the plank, or even dying quietly in his bed, to being stifled by a rope. [11]
- They knew their Natasha, and alarm as to what would happen if she heard this news stifled all sympathy for the man they both liked. [2]
- Venters bowed over it kissed it, pressed it hard, and half stifled a sound very like a sob. [13]
- She started to her feet with a stifled, bitter cry: "Oh, Harry! [11]
- Holding his breath, he gazed down at his darling, his broad shoulders shook, and in a stifled, faltering voice he asked the physician: "Must she die? [10]
- He began to have misgivings about his choice, but he stifled them. [5]
- Many a young hand dropped in its little wreath, many a stifled sob was heard. [12]
- Thus smothered, its fragrance stifled, it seemed emblematic, somehow, of the clandestine nature of her love.... [9]
- With a stifled exclamation he sat down and began to write. [11]
- Gayety was stifled, conversation was carried on in whispers. [10]
- In the close cabin these terrible visions, united with the fear of having reaped undeserved praise, would have crouched upon his breast like harpies and stifled or driven him mad. [10]
- She was aroused by the sound of wheels and the soft beat of a horse's hoofs on the dirt road: then came stifled laughter, and suddenly she sprang up alert and tingling. [9]
- She motioned him aside with a curt "Later"; and when Zeno held open the door of the litter, she said in a stifled tone: "I will walk. [10]
- The wind drove all the smoke round there, and we were half stifled with sulphur fumes to begin with. [4]
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