Why do we need the suffocating presence of the Earth?

Finally the relationship became too suffocating and the couple ended their 23-year marriage in 1999.

It was good to be out of that suffocating airport.

They talked about the weather, as everybody did in those suffocating days.

All the air had gone out of the world, leaving it empty and suffocating.

A suffocating defense still the league's best at defending against the run.

How long she had been there in that suffocating atmosphere I could not guess.

Water would be too suffocating, and she didn't like that.

Despite the suffocating heat that washed over him, he turned cold.

The suffocating heat hit once more and he knew that soon the whole area would be in flames.

"It would be most suffocating to the soul," I said at last.

But it was France's suffocating defense that carried the day.

Already she could feel the suffocating heat crowding in around her.

He studied his face, and felt again that gentle suffocating feeling of love.

The girls tried to lift me, but I was helpless and suffocating.

Trying to fight back from the suffocating darkness brought sensation to her body.

He was the obvious leader of the Ravens' suffocating defense.

But I narrowed my focus to create a suffocating atmosphere.

It was the most suffocating experience she'd ever had.

Then we'll have a choice between opening up or suffocating."

Even the nature of the suffocating defense is different.

They crowded the room, filled it with their suffocating presence.

Others were at the opposite side, serving the suffocating roles.

There were times when she thought his awful, suffocating weight would never rise from her.

But their eight 3-pointers and suffocating defense enabled them to overcome it.

They were probably shot to death but might have suffocated.

It was as if someone had tried to suffocate her.

Over a period of 48 hours she suffocated to death.

The walls seemed to close in on the man, suffocating him.

"A little longer in there and I might have suffocated."

By the time they pulled her out, she had nearly suffocated.

She had almost suffocated herself, a few weeks before going into the hospital.

Also, there's still the question of who did it and how they suffocated him.

This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her.

I was suffocating from living as a part of the big lie.

I was too busy trying to come and keep from suffocating at the same time.

"My guess is that he suffocated because of all the pressure."

But these words are suffocated before they leave my throat.

Because the fame was suffocating the life out of him.

It takes the male over half an hour to suffocate.

For a moment, Eric felt like he was going to suffocate.

No more than five minutes later, the building collapsed, all but suffocating them.

Plants may then die as a result, from being suffocated.

By the time everyone could get to the tunnel, many of them might suffocate.

In just a few hours she would suffocate or freeze to death.

What I once would have found to be suffocating was suddenly a comfort.

Every second he'd had the terror that he was about to suffocate.

A man died in 1982 from suffocating inside a Murphy bed.

Without real reform, health care spending is going to suffocate our economy.

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