Examples of 'stifled' in a sentence
Meaning of "stifled"
To stifle (verb) means to suppress, restrain, or stop something from happening or developing. It is often used to describe suffocating or suppressing emotions or actions
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- That has been interrupted, suppressed etc
- simple past tense and past participle of stifle
How to use "stifled" in a sentence
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I see how stifled you must feel.
She was blooming after years of being stifled by you.
It feels stifled as if you are suppressing your emotions.
Weak education has stifled their progress.
The stifled business due to police involvement.
The cold had stifled the smell.
I stifled in the same filthy sack of fear.
And you will be stifled in that life.
With stifled screams from torture rooms.
Looks like they stifled news articles.
Alec stifled what sounded like a laugh.
I resisted and he felt stifled by my lack of vision.
She stifled a cynical snort at the thought.
The strong dollar stifled our competitiveness.
She stifled a giggle behind a fake cough.
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Initiative would be stifled and confidence shaken.
But it was like a heavy cloak that stifled me.
Creativity is stifled by an overzealous concern for safety.
He did show signs of depression and stifled rage.
Zoning had stifled dairy innovation elsewhere.
Without trying to give his stifled life.
I am serving the stifled people of this town.
For the instinct must then be stifled.
Strong are the stifled shades of brothers.
Any voice of dissent or protest is immediately stifled.
You have stifled the vital force in it.
The oppressive emotional climate stifled her.
The air was stifled by typhus and starvation.
You and that old woman stifled me.
Do not be stifled by your age or lack of experience.
This crisis has been stifled and delayed.
Legitimate voices and movements of dissent are being stifled.
Doctors were stifled from the very start.
We choose to have our faith strengthen or stifled.
They end up feeling stifled in such situations.
Hopefully their innate curiosity is not stifled.
You may have stifled its voice.
Freedom and creativity should never be stifled.
And your work is stifled along with it.
Always there are deeper hungers that are being stifled.
A strangely stifled voice answers the phone.
I wonder if that would have stifled her.
I was half stifled by their thronging pressure.
Four walls would have stifled her.
He stifled it the only way he could.
The desire must be stifled and crushed.
It was so heavy that some people felt stifled.
The right to vote stifled they try.
The conscience of the community had been stifled.
Her voice had been stifled for so long.
