Usually the witch suffocated quickly because the heat of the fire fused together the air sacks in the lungs.

Fish dependent solely on dissolved oxygen, such as perch and cichlids, quickly suffocate, while air-breathers survive for much longer, in some cases in water that is little more than wet mud.

When the signal fails, Hong attempts to get it back, only to break his air scrubbers, causing him to quickly suffocate on the venting carbon dioxide.

It is knocked to the ground by a heavy blow, seized by the throat or mouth and quickly suffocated.

The fact that so many modern creatures utilize oxygen in respiration, and indeed now rely upon it (so that animals quickly suffocate in its absence), is a fine example of evolution adapting creatively.

Removing it should be enough--the respirator was breathing for him; without it, he would suffocate quickly.

Nausea overwhelmed the warrior, and, for a moment, he was so sick and dizzy, he forgot that he was also quickly suffocating to death.

She decided that he could not suffocate quickly with his respiration so minimal and his metabolic rate down as low as it must be.

They could not escape from the crowded second floor, which had been added illegally and had no exit, and many quickly suffocated.

Because his body was underground, he suffocated quickly and died again.