Words similar to suffocate

Example sentences for: suffocate

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

One particularly invoked George Orwell's 1984 . Other issues: child porn on the Net, on-the-scene news on television, and whether parents who leave children to suffocate in a hot car should be charged with manslaughter.
Everyone agrees his strategy is to create an air of inevitability and suffocate his competitors.
Then they would shoot or suffocate him.
Languages that rigidly hold on to their purity soon suffocate themselves.