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