Sentence for stifled | Use stifled in a sentence

Sentences for stifled. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use stifled in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for stifled.

• Shelton stifled a desire to laugh. (8)
• But his sense of justice stifled condemnation. (8)
• He went out with a curse stifled behind his pale, just smiling lips. (8)
• It was earthy, for a cloud of dust was about it, and the woman gave a stifled scream. (10)
• All the blood rushed from her heart; she stifled a scream, and tried to pull the door to. (8)
• The anguish of the touch wrung a stifled scream from him, at which she screamed responsive. (10)
• The anguish of the touch wrung a stifled scream from him, at which she screamed responsive. (22)
• He felt stifled in his tall silk hat, long frock coat, patent-leather shoes, and black gloves. (13)
• At that intense soft bitterness in her voice, he gets up, feeling stifled, and stands at the window. (8)
• And now, whenever he came to anything of which he desired to know the cost, he stifled that curiosity. (8)
• Mrs. Lander swept the bank-notes from the coverlet and pulled it over her head, and sent from beneath it a stifled wail. (9)
• But after that I often felt, and especially when we heard guns, how the best and most secret instincts of him were being stifled. (8)
• The intolerable scourge fetched a stifled scream from her and drove her pacing, but there was no escape; she returned to meet it. (10)
• The rain, which had for hours been a dull drizzle, fell with a copiousness that stifled us; we moved in running water up to our ankles. (7)
• Soon this wanton rumour was met and stifled by another of more morbific density, heavily charged as that which led the sad Eliza to her pyre. (10)
• Ay, but nature, if we are to tame these men, must be swathed and concealed, partly stifled, absolutely stifled upon occasion. (10)
• A foolish, idle curiosity to know what, after all that had happened, he could possibly have to say, stirred within her, but she disdainfully stifled it. (9)

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