Words similar to smother

Example sentences for: smother

How can you use “smother” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
He could use the complex House rules to smother the bill.
One of the young Bullets, Jaren Jackson, tried to smother Jordan and prevent him from getting the ball.
This lets in sunlight and air, reducing the forest's ability to smother fire by trapping moisture, and it encourages the growth of smaller, more fire-prone plants.
In contrast, these verb pictures can also smother insight when ill-conceived--as were the charts prepared by the manufacturer Morton Thiokol to illustrate the behavior in cold weather of the O-rings on the space shuttle Challenger.