17 example sentences using smother.
Smother used in a sentence
Smother in a sentence as a noun
Or maybe Google is trying its best to smother WP8 in the cradle.
By the time they're using these extreme powers to smother dissent, you're ******.
The movement is much smother than anything I could accomplish with a cam ...
I'd really like to move the GMail Acc. I use for some of my mail, but every option kinda feels like moving from smoke to smother.
This is a valid fear, but has the government yet used surveillance to smother dissent?
Yes, the government has used surveillance to smother dissent.
A pillow can be classified as an 'assault weapon' if you try to smother someone with it.
Yup. I am fed up with the lies we all tell to ourselves - all the BS that we smother ourselves in:- all for appearance's sake.
Japan should be capitalising on this trend, trying to spread the culture overseas, not trying to smother it!
Smother in a sentence as a verb
Internet of Things is neat, and fascinating, but articles like this may very well smother it in its crib.
To remove more oxygen from the depressurized compartments to try to smother the fire?
If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt-- and so on, through as many stages as you please.
[4]Armstrongs invention threatened RCAs AM empire, so the company launched a campaign to smother FM radio.
Proceeding with this seems sure way to smother any economic development and relegate the country to third-world backwater status for the foreseeable future.
Based on the name alone one could reasonably assume this alliance will achieve no real world goals, will continue to sort of chug along for years and then the next time you'll hear about it is if/when the remaining members finally smother it with a pillow.
I'd be interested in seeing an argument explaining why these API calls smother puppies when the premise of the original article is that you can in fact offer them as an interface to the shiny new better way of doing things, without accidentally summoning cthulu.
Of course, there are illegal things that, in my opinion, should be legal, but this is a reason to petition the government for change, not break the law... perhaps a reduced ability to break pointless laws would galvanize the population into large-scale activism?Fear of government surveillance is entirely fear of smothered dissent.
Smother definitions
a stifling cloud of smoke
envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
See also: surround
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
See also: asphyxiate suffocate
conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"