suffocate

Despite U.S. efforts to suffocate the smuggling, Tehran reaped around $31 billion in oil revenue from China last year, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a Congressional group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“Take advantage of the time you have ahead of you to understand risk better. Don’t suffocate your portfolio” by allocating too much for income-based investments.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Their breath was believed to poison the air and suffocate the land, especially in swampy regions where disease was common.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

Don’t let your plants dry out or sit in water, because that will suffocate the roots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

She was hugging Via so hard I thought Via would suffocate, but Via was laughing.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

"She has heart disease. Sometimes she suffocates and turns blue. She can't continue living in a tent."

From BBC ● May 20, 2025

However, if there is too much calcium, the mitochondrial processes become unbalanced and the cell suffocates.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

For much of the summer, Lake Okeechobee suffocates under toxic, blue-green algae blooms fed by fertilizer runoff from farms.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

As Spain suffocates under high temperatures, ice on its mountains is melting.

From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2023

This atmosphere of carbolic and gangrene clogs the lungs, it is a thick gruel, it suffocates.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

“I feel suffocated and breathless when it is too hot,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

She said one of her babies went blue and almost suffocated when she tried to breastfeed her.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

India has also received three shipments of crude oil from Iran, according to a local Iranian diplomatic mission—the first such transfers in years after sanctions suffocated trade between the two countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

"Around 9 pm, I was feeling suffocated and nostalgic, so I got in the car to drive around town," a 28-year-old woman told AFP on Monday on condition that her identity be protected.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

"Is this some sort of prank? I could have suffocated in there!"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The vitriol was all so loud, so suffocating, that it became the symbol of this race in the minds of the South Asian voters I spoke with in the Columbus metropolitan region.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

"It isn't only me. It's the entire population. We're all hungry... We're suffocating under rising costs."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Her plan was to float around an underwater living room set up in her inner, surreal, suffocating fantasy world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Indonesia has been battling fires for weeks in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, sending suffocating haze across the islands and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

We rise up and up inside a suffocating dark tube.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera