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Example sentences for: stifled

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I stifled an urge to whisper, "If you leave now, you can catch the Matlock rerun"--which would have been snotty but not completely off the point.
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.
The main road along the coast, EN-125, is lined with ceramic shops and stifled with summertime traffic, but the agricultural countryside to the north is a different world.
The Beijing government has stifled every remaining dissident through exile, imprisonment, or intimidation.
One of the early concerns was that advances in TMA technology would be stifled by a rigid standard containing a list of required Common Data Elements and a required data structure.