stifling

Speech parts

1. stifling - Noun

2. stifling - Adjective

3. stifling - Verb

5. stifling - Adjective Satellite

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of Stifle

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I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird. In his good time. Robert Browning

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. Burt Lancaster

In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides. Anton Chekhov

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! Anton LaVey

How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? Sylvia Plath

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude. Derek Mahon

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