Sentence example with the word 'smothered'

smothered

arcane, close, damped, dull, hermetic, muted, repressed, sordo, suffocated, under security, undivulged, untold

Definition adj. held in check with difficulty

Last update: August 26, 2015


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He yelled her name but the call was smothered by the cry of the wind and the crash of the surf beyond.   [Please select]

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He pulled up short with a smothered, gasping cry.   [Please select]

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I vow you have smothered my mantua with dust.   [Please select]

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Then all heard plainly a half-smothered grunt of satisfaction, followed by a deep drawn breath.   [Please select]

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Without looking up, Tom answered, in a smothered voice, "Failed; all gone to smash; and to-morrow every one will know it."   [Please select]

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'E 'ad a wye with 'im--" Polly broke into a smothered wail."'   [Please select]

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As for John's heart it almost smothered him with its beating.   [Please select]

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If I had played like that before an audience, the women and girls would have smothered me with kisses.   [Please select]

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A thick cloud of dust hung upon their rear, which filled my mouth and eyes and nearly smothered me.   [Please select]

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He longed to peer through the great iron fence, but he smothered this desire.   [Please select]

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He moved forward like a wind and caught the girl up in his arms, lifted her off her feet, smothered her cry.   [Please select]

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