Most of the people who were in Pompeii when the fourth pyroclastic surge hit died instantly or slowly suffocated to death.

His neck did not break from the fall, and the crowd of 250 spectators watched as he writhed and slowly suffocated.

The medical examiner said there was evidence that Channon slowly suffocated to death.

Ranch wives were left to take pride in silent competence as their spirits slowly suffocated.

He fled with his plunder as my frail neighbor slowly suffocated beneath the weight of the mattress.

The short trip becomes interminable as the men slowly suffocate to death.

I felt as if were choking, being slowly and surely suffocated.

As he helped her to her feet, dark motes spun before his eyes, and he knew they were all slowly suffocating to death.

They would slowly suffocate if they couldn't find a better refuge!

Now it felt like a clinging pall drawing tighter with every step, slowly suffocating her.