Words similar to stifle

Example sentences for: stifle

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

The chief stressed that this beefed-up security is in no way intended to stifle dissent.
By confronting them with budget cuts instead of tax increases-claiming that Bradley would "shred the social safety net" and stifle "new initiatives on education" in order to "give two-thirds of the money to those who already have health insurance"-Gore gives them pause.
She is the colony's "canary in a coal mine": If the Chinese stifle her, it will be a sure sign that Hong Kong is in trouble.
Because the price for Windows has more than doubled since 1990 and because the apparent monopoly might "stifle services that would emerge with competition," the editorial concludes that Microsoft could be bad for consumers.
Encyclopedias, after all, are middlebrow, bourgeois books that tend, in the end, not to promote intellectual inquiry on the part of the people who use them but rather to stifle it.