Cover thickly

Usage examples of smother.

There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.

Batouch, smothered in his burnous, his large head sunk upon his chest, slumbered like a potentate relieved from cares of State.

Valyn asked anxiously as Mero pulled himself up off of the bed with a smothered oath.

I should say, in order to keep down the fat lest it overlie and smother the soul.

Arabella Radman, her radiant beauty smothered in the folds of old age as she suffered her eternally youthful husband catering to her fragile needs.

Dam mR dammit, dam reit She dropped the box and backed up against the wall, smothering the flames--but not before she burned her hands and her back.

A simple gag should smother all the screaming, and before Seriema was missed, the job would be done, and he would be gone.

One evening he went to a cottager who had a row of skeps, and bought one of them, just as it was after the man had smothered the bees.

With his lips he smothered hers, kissing her until he felt her lips soften, the eddy of her breath swirling with his.

She smothered a yawn, not inclined to leave the comfort of the bed so soon despite the hour.

The oppressive pall of fear that had smothered the people was dissolved at last.

Soft arms were flung around his neck, his sweaty, sooty face was smothered in plump and delicious kisses.

He took a handful of her hair and smothered the remainder of the sentence.

Thus the limit-age, so that the People would not be faced with a choice between an intolerable smothered existence and a virtual prohibition against new births.

When she woke to find herself smothered in dark cloth, encircled by strong arms, Elf thought he was up to yet more wickedness, but something she did not care for.