The torrid heat mixed with car fumes suffocates.

In the viewscreen, they saw the hull turning cherry red; the heat was suffocating in the cabin, the ventilation system gone.

The heat was suffocating on the flats, but here it was eased by the cool air off the water and by the shade of the big oak.

She struggled to cover her ears, unable to bear it, wailing for it to stop, the heat suffocating her.

A continued artillery barrage envelops people in thick blackness and the heat, escalating dangerously, is suffocating.

The heat and humidity will be suffocating in Atlanta, and the Olympics offers no prize money.

The heat, hot enough to boil water, would blind and suffocate us.

The heat suffocated her.

It was cool and silent within the trees while the day's heat suffocated the surrounding land in an airless, sweltering blanket.

They had arrived fashionably late and already the heat from the hundreds of candles was suffocating.