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Definition of stifling in English: stiflingadjective ˈstʌɪflɪŋˈstʌɪf(ə)lɪŋˈstaɪf(ə)lɪŋ 1(of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating. the loft is stifling in summer Example sentencesExamples - The growing season starts a little late, but catches up with long days of sunshine and what can be stifling heat at the end of summer.
- All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying.
- In the stifling heat, tempers boiled over with depressing regularity.
- Before too long the air in the jeep was stifling, because of the cigarette smoke and alcohol.
- He said families with young children were the largest group to express their concern about the stifling weather.
- The weather is almost stifling now.
- Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat for the last couple of days to queue for free handphone connections.
- The heat in the summer can be stifling.
- The 40 student volunteers staggered through the stifling heat to the Lampert building over the course of two weeks.
- I wanted to ask how she had endured the frustration, the exasperation, the stifling air, the imprisonment.
- I really enjoy having, in my own home, an escape from those exhausting summer days of high temperatures and stifling humidity.
- The humidity in the summer can be stifling, which may explain why St. Louis ranks fourth in the nation in ice cream parlors.
- Summer in the city can be a sweaty, stifling, unpleasant time.
- After numerous reports about energy shortages and no heat, the orchestra's hotel rooms were stifling.
- Lizzy had to leave the room which had become too stifling.
- I went outside to escape the stifling atmosphere and sat on the steps.
- The steady thump of drums beat a deadly rhythm in the stifling heat.
- The temperature on that day was a stifling 37 degrees at noon in a few non-urban areas.
- It's hot and stifling up there.
- In the afternoon we sit in the stifling press tent and try to work.
2Making one feel constrained or oppressed. the stifling formality of her family life Example sentencesExamples - The entrepreneurial spirit and social innovation fostered by a market economy has benefited many, and should not be overly encumbered by stifling regulations.
- The hallmark problem of a monopolist is its stifling effect on innovation.
- But even if it cannot be taken to its logical conclusion, the precautionary principle can still have a stifling effect on society.
- Television and the print media present an image of prosperity and foster an intellectual atmosphere of stifling conformity.
- But there is a new threat on the horizon: the E.U.'s stifling bureaucracy.
- I guess I learned the lesson that too much inward focus can be stifling.
- To a Western eye, the residential areas have a stifling lack of public space - no parks, few open areas.
- Ellen opens his eyes to the stifling New York society in which he has always lived.
- Naturally, they can hardly accept Shen's stifling love.
- The continuing absence of a stifling religiosity is a great Australian virtue.
- The level of control exercised by the parties was absolutely stifling.
- We have no work ethic and a stifling bureaucracy.
- The parental home is wonderful but stifling.
- Equally true, it is important not to over-react and introduce further layers of stifling bureaucracy in a series of panic measures.
- However, since this was the 1980s, the liberation is for Cathy, not Alan; the screwball romance becomes a tale of feminist emancipation from stifling domesticity.
- As much as he found managing a gym stifling, he has always been invigorated by the challenge of building a better gym from scratch.
- Academia can be stifling for those who worry too much about convention.
- Sex and the City was a great series, with a lot to say about today's apparently liberating, but strangely stifling society.
- If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume.
- His initial reaction is to escape from a stifling home environment, school bullies, and poverty.
- Waterloo dominated the Mustangs with a stifling defense and a strong running attack earlier this season winning 22-3.
- Jude and Tess contend with the stifling conventions of their society and are dealt with cruelly by it.
- Plato sees democracy as imposing stifling bureaucracy on gifted individuals.
- There was nothing, except for my distaste for the stifling culture of public school, that made the experience unusually unpleasant.
- Many have even denounced the traditional family as a stifling, patriarchal institution, thereby fueling a middle-class backlash.
Derivatives adverb as submodifier a stiflingly hot day Example sentencesExamples - And even when their conversations veer too far into existential, meaning-of-life territory, the sharp banter between the pair keeps their exchanges from becoming too mannered or stiflingly intellectual.
- The summers are stiflingly hot and the colony becomes infested with mosquitoes.
- In his worst films, those images only seem to confirm a bleakly monochromatic, stiflingly adolescent worldview.
- Perhaps that was why I had enjoyed tormenting him the most out of all the boys - because his retorts were so completely opposite from anything I might have heard someone say to me in the stiflingly polite atmosphere of the palace.
- The room was stiflingly warm; a feeble, half-hearted breeze blew through, but it was all hot air.
Definition of stifling in US English: stiflingadjectiveˈstīf(ə)liNGˈstaɪf(ə)lɪŋ 1(of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating. Example sentencesExamples - The temperature on that day was a stifling 37 degrees at noon in a few non-urban areas.
- The weather is almost stifling now.
- Lizzy had to leave the room which had become too stifling.
- I wanted to ask how she had endured the frustration, the exasperation, the stifling air, the imprisonment.
- The heat in the summer can be stifling.
- Before too long the air in the jeep was stifling, because of the cigarette smoke and alcohol.
- Summer in the city can be a sweaty, stifling, unpleasant time.
- After numerous reports about energy shortages and no heat, the orchestra's hotel rooms were stifling.
- I went outside to escape the stifling atmosphere and sat on the steps.
- In the afternoon we sit in the stifling press tent and try to work.
- It's hot and stifling up there.
- I really enjoy having, in my own home, an escape from those exhausting summer days of high temperatures and stifling humidity.
- He said families with young children were the largest group to express their concern about the stifling weather.
- The humidity in the summer can be stifling, which may explain why St. Louis ranks fourth in the nation in ice cream parlors.
- All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying.
- The steady thump of drums beat a deadly rhythm in the stifling heat.
- In the stifling heat, tempers boiled over with depressing regularity.
- The growing season starts a little late, but catches up with long days of sunshine and what can be stifling heat at the end of summer.
- The 40 student volunteers staggered through the stifling heat to the Lampert building over the course of two weeks.
- Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat for the last couple of days to queue for free handphone connections.
2Making one feel constrained or oppressed. the stifling formality of her family life Example sentencesExamples - However, since this was the 1980s, the liberation is for Cathy, not Alan; the screwball romance becomes a tale of feminist emancipation from stifling domesticity.
- Ellen opens his eyes to the stifling New York society in which he has always lived.
- Plato sees democracy as imposing stifling bureaucracy on gifted individuals.
- We have no work ethic and a stifling bureaucracy.
- Many have even denounced the traditional family as a stifling, patriarchal institution, thereby fueling a middle-class backlash.
- The hallmark problem of a monopolist is its stifling effect on innovation.
- Naturally, they can hardly accept Shen's stifling love.
- His initial reaction is to escape from a stifling home environment, school bullies, and poverty.
- The entrepreneurial spirit and social innovation fostered by a market economy has benefited many, and should not be overly encumbered by stifling regulations.
- There was nothing, except for my distaste for the stifling culture of public school, that made the experience unusually unpleasant.
- The parental home is wonderful but stifling.
- Jude and Tess contend with the stifling conventions of their society and are dealt with cruelly by it.
- The level of control exercised by the parties was absolutely stifling.
- The continuing absence of a stifling religiosity is a great Australian virtue.
- But even if it cannot be taken to its logical conclusion, the precautionary principle can still have a stifling effect on society.
- Television and the print media present an image of prosperity and foster an intellectual atmosphere of stifling conformity.
- Academia can be stifling for those who worry too much about convention.
- Waterloo dominated the Mustangs with a stifling defense and a strong running attack earlier this season winning 22-3.
- Sex and the City was a great series, with a lot to say about today's apparently liberating, but strangely stifling society.
- But there is a new threat on the horizon: the E.U.'s stifling bureaucracy.
- As much as he found managing a gym stifling, he has always been invigorated by the challenge of building a better gym from scratch.
- If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume.
- I guess I learned the lesson that too much inward focus can be stifling.
- To a Western eye, the residential areas have a stifling lack of public space - no parks, few open areas.
- Equally true, it is important not to over-react and introduce further layers of stifling bureaucracy in a series of panic measures.
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