SMOTHER in a Sentence

Learn SMOTHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

42 example sentences for SMOTHER, such as:

1. He smothered the baby with a pillow.
2. They try to smother fires as soon as possible.
3. The killer smothered the victim with a pillow.
4. Melanie smothered her with an embrace at parting.
5. And she went, smiling as she smothered his feeble protests.

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 Meanings and Examples of SMOTHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
smother
 v.  conceal or hide; envelop completely; extinguish; deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  She began calling for Ashley, over and over, as if in a delirium until the hideous monotony gave Scarlett a fierce desire to smother her voice with a pillow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  Marija, who threatened horrid murder a hundred times a day, and would weep over the injury of a fly, seized little Sebastijonas in her arms and bid fair to smother him with kisses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The subjects of which her heart had been full on leaving Kellynch, and which she had felt slighted, and been compelled to smother among the Musgroves, were now become but of secondary interest.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  They spoke in smothered whispers, as though the night were listening.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt and cast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett in pleased bewilderment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Melanie smothered her with an embrace at parting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Captain Randall and the occupants of the carriage smothered smiles at this naive explanation of rifle pits.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  He smothered a grin, as from the corner of his eye he saw her bosom heave with silent wrath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  And she went, smiling as she smothered his feeble protests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  No sooner were her preparations made than they roused a smothered sense of resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
12  He fought frantically for respite for his senses, for air, as a babe being smothered attacks the deadly blankets.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  He hastened to undo it; and, with smothered voices and heavy tread, came several men, bringing a body, wrapped in a cloak, and lying on a shutter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  To the gang, however, she was known; for there was much looking and turning of heads, and a smothered yet apparent exultation among the miserable, ragged, half-starved creatures by whom she was surrounded.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Tom was weeping, also, and occasionally uttering a smothered ejaculation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  They try to smother fires as soon as possible.
2  He smothered the baby with a pillow.
3  The killer smothered the victim with a pillow.
4  Rochester enforce this concealment? His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion! Lastly, I saw Mr.