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Example sentences for: stifled

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Laybourne now honors creative people at Oxygen Media by making sure that they don't have health insurance so their creativity isn't stifled by taking their kids to the doctor.
It occurred to me, while laboring to write this column and make a bit of money to support my family, that it would do wonders for my stifled creativity to drive somewhere tropical, sip single-barrel bourbon, and have sex with a tawny barmaid.
As long as it remains unclear where scientific breakthroughs will come from, diversity and flexibility should be encouraged and not stifled.
This capital city of four million is constantly rattled by noise and stifled by dense traffic.
A Wall Street Journal editorial on Internet taxation takes the position that Bill Clinton is right to support a sales tax moratorium, and Trent Lott wrong to oppose it, because the Internet is "the business infrastructure of the future," and hence its growth shouldn't be "stifled" by taxes.