Example sentences for: smother

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

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • One of the young Bullets, Jaren Jackson, tried to smother Jordan and prevent him from getting the ball.

  • He could use the complex House rules to smother the bill.


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