Repress - itself

Usage examples of stifle.

Wiping eyes and stifling laughs, the three men turned to appraise him.

Being inside an Architect temple, he thought, was as stifling as being inside a computer.

Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.

She was an Afghan refugee who had traded her stifling burqa for a Kevlar vest and combat gear.

Stifling a humph, he drew her a fraction closer--and set his mind to enjoying the rest of the waltz.

Stifling the urge, he led Lady Litton to her seat, made the brief introductions and indicated for Brighton to follow him before storming off.

Berating herself, she scrambled back into the stifling dusty confines of the manuka scrub.

Monsieur de la Mery found the atmosphere in this house a trifle stifling.

Australia was not what it should be, but even the wild mana and the chaos were preferable to the deadness of the metroplex and the stifling, oppressive gloom cast by the corporate skyscrapers.

Marathe stifled a shudder and pulled up his blanket slightly, hunching to minimalize the musculature of health of his upper torso, also.

Our economy is unstable, our culture is stagnating, our ambition has been misdirected and stifled.

American War Machine was but a gigantic, lumbering erection wedged into the tight pants of Democracy, stifled until the outburst of war prompts congressional rubbing and legislative foreplay and the uncontrollable spurting ejaculation of bombs and missles ensues as the nation COMES on the heads of a nation of Third World villagers.

And in many ways Jason Lawton, like Perihelion itself, remains under the stifling influence of his father.

She tried to pretend that this was all a game, but from time to time she heard Petter stifle a murmur of pain as he knocked his burned and bandaged hand in the darkness.

Shadow stifled a cry and then relaxed as he saw the bird soaring away, one foot down with Potro sitting on it, holding on to the leg, his own skinny legs sticking out in front.