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How to use suffocation in a sentence

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We went up a flight of stairs crammed to suffocation by people eagerly waiting for the hall doors to open.
Citizens found themselves squeezed to suffocation in one way or another between domestic repression and exogenous vilification.
There is none of the sense of suffocation that was once a feature of general anaesthesia.
But the need to break clear from the suffocation of reverent togetherness is not just a matter of philosophical self-respect.
Growing up in East Germany, the Chancellor witnessed first-hand the economic suffocation of communism.
Infants who cannot yet lift their heads are especially at risk for suffocation and strangulation.
Plastic bags can be a suffocation danger for babies and small children and wrapping paper and cellophane are easy to slip on.
Like a man in a diving bell whose air supply has been cut off, my mind leapt between bouts of panic and thoughts of suffocation.
Examples of abuse include punches, kicks, blows and partial suffocation by placing a rubber gas mask over the person's face.
But I still have that feeling of suffocation, that my lungs are clawing at the air for a breath.
But Ibsen himself thought her brave and true to her exceptional self, straining against the suffocation of modern life.
The painting elicits the viewer's identification with her weariness and suffocation in an intimate way.
There are between 70 and 150 deaths per year in the UK caused by suffocation, heart failure or choking on vomit.
Three fourths of the deaths were caused by entrapment in the bed structure leading to suffocation or strangulation.
The most common cause of fish kills in Ohio is suffocation due to lack of oxygen.
A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died of suffocation, according to police.
It was his opinion that the injury was evidence of suffocation or smothering.
Whether moving grain or working in the grain bin, there's always a danger of suffocation or respiratory problems.
With all the heat, humidity and suffocation, no matter how hard I try to fall asleep, it remains a distant dream.
The combined feelings of suffocation and claustrophobia caused her to feel the worst terror she had ever experienced.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They died of suffocation, after they had breathed all the air contained in the water.
They in turn, as they grow, interlock their boughs, and repeat in a season or two the same process of mutual suffocation.
We all passed a fearful night of suffocation and jambing, fasting and feasted on by millions.
They began to die from heat and suffocation, and then they were unloaded and reshipped after the troops were on board.
David Rossi had a sense of suffocation, and he went out on to the lead flat.
A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.
I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation.
Better the floor than this dingy feather couch of suffocation.
Lambert came to himself with a half-drowned sense of suffocation.
The scorching air was laden to suffocation by the odors of burning resin.
If suffocation is imminent, tracheotomy or intubation is called for.
One may think that the locality of your passing away by means of suffocation in water does not really matter very much.
When she awoke from troubled dreams it was with a sense of suffocation.
The waiters were recalled, and he was stuffed to suffocation.
Died of sudden suffocation, as he was crossing Hounslow Heath.
He suffered terribly with suffocation, but bore it stunningly well.
Lack of air in the car turned it into a death chamber as both the kids were later found dead due to suffocation.
If suffocation threatens, the operation of tracheotomy is the only resort.
Otherwise we run the danger of suffocation from the miasma of vulgarity.
I shall only have time to reach the bell, and pull it violently, before the sense of suffocation will come.
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