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Example sentences for: smother

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Before running away from home in Newark, N.J., to the Catholic home--known locally as the Convent--for instance, a character named Mavis allows her twin infants to smother to death in the family car.
At any time of day you can wander into the fields and meet the modest farmers, who might smother you with hospitality (cigars, coffee, and so forth) and pose for photos.
Being a poem, it will want to escape these contradictions--to ignore them, to smooth them into plausible resolution or otherwise to smother the scandal of its roots in real history.
But neither script nor plot measures up: "The noir atmosphere doesn't quite smother the dialogue's cheesy smell" (Gene Seymour, Los Angeles Times ). (Visit the official site.)
He could use the complex House rules to smother the bill.