smothering

Texans quarterback CJ Stroud managed just 86 yards in his worst career game thanks to a smothering Packers defence that sacked him four times, but three sloppy Green Bay turnovers led to seven lead changes and almost cost them the game.

A carer who hit a "defenceless and vulnerable" 90-year-old woman in her own home with a metal flask before smothering her with a pillow has been jailed for murder.

It’s the latest of several Biden administration actions to tackle the plastic crisis, which is smothering communities, oceans and even our bodies with toxic material that doesn’t break down in nature.

Recent months have been marked by sizzling heat, smothering wildfire smoke and dangerous floods.

I no longer notice the flashes of lime green tape caressing door frames, encircling bathroom floors and smothering naked outlets.