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People with sleep apnea will report dreams of, like, drowning, suffocating, giant waves, gasping for air, being underwater or being choked. – Alex Dimitriu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I feel like it's suffocating me slowly, why do I have to choose between living and living ? – Angelina Scott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
it’s not funny nor humorous anymore, is it? this practical confine greasing our gills, gilding our lilies, suffocating on our common wreckage – Todd Kalinski	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
It felt like you're almost suffocating. It was just like, I felt like, what was I going to do? I was a kid and maybe this is in my best interests and maybe this is what I'm supposed to do because of course I don't want to be hounded by the paparazzi or tabloids or allow them to control my narrative. But it felt like I was really being alienated. – Jamie Lynn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Halyna was the love of my life, and our loss of her has devastated our family's dreams.We feel the silence of her being forever gone as a suffocating stillness in our home, our love and adoration for her grows as we tell her story, and we hope her work can inspire filmmakers and storytellers around the world. We thank the many generous supporters who have been so thoughtful in our time of loss. – Matt Hutchins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is so divided here, for the love of coal and the love of the mountains, but how can you love both ? we've got to think about solar and wind on these gorgeous mountains, we've got to get away from coal. It's a matter of being comfortable in your home, warm in the winter and not suffocating in the summer. Not having to sacrifice your mortgage to be comfortable. – Felisha Chase	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As you can see in the video, far more than two people are involved in suffocating him, i would urge them to reconsider the other people ... who are clearly involved in the killing of Cornelius. – Fieger Law -RRB- Fieger	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Something is wrong with my health because I'm suffocating as I breathe, my eyes are always in pain and itchy. – Pitak Meesopa	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I believe this ruling frees women from one shackle that had been suffocating them. – Kim Su-jung	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's so suffocating and overwhelming, and you want to get through it the best way you can, but the culture of fear is just paralyzing, and it's that shame and stigma that's just so ingrained in Irish society. – Lucy Watmough	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What more crime can a woman commit by suffocating her sensuous body behind the tight dress. Stay Nude, Breathe Life! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by Ramana Pemmaraju 6 years ago
When life only consists of infantile first world problems and day-by-day futilities, our mind is eager for other values, which should fill the unbearable emptiness. If we are suffocating under the pressure of the banality of evil and losing out to the slowly infiltrating cancerous cells of indifference, resilience and redirection is required. ("The world was somewhere else" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I wanted you to see most of the body, and I wanted to leave some negative space so that it's not too much with the patterns, i like my images to look pretty clean and not too suffocating. – Keyana Tahmaseb	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We all rushed out to the open and the next moment a huge wall of snow just piled on me, i managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave. I wiggled and used my claws to dig as much as I could. I was suffocating, I could not breathe. But I knew I had to survive. – Kuduni Sherpa	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. – George Steiner	added by anonymous 10 years ago

People with sleep apnea will report dreams of, like, drowning, suffocating, giant waves, gasping for air, being underwater or being choked.

– Alex Dimitriu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel like it's suffocating me slowly, why do I have to choose between living and living ?

– Angelina Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

it’s not funny nor humorous anymore, is it? this practical confine greasing our gills, gilding our lilies, suffocating on our common wreckage

– Todd Kalinski

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

It felt like you're almost suffocating. It was just like, I felt like, what was I going to do? I was a kid and maybe this is in my best interests and maybe this is what I'm supposed to do because of course I don't want to be hounded by the paparazzi or tabloids or allow them to control my narrative. But it felt like I was really being alienated.

– Jamie Lynn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Halyna was the love of my life, and our loss of her has devastated our family's dreams.We feel the silence of her being forever gone as a suffocating stillness in our home, our love and adoration for her grows as we tell her story, and we hope her work can inspire filmmakers and storytellers around the world. We thank the many generous supporters who have been so thoughtful in our time of loss.

– Matt Hutchins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is so divided here, for the love of coal and the love of the mountains, but how can you love both ? we've got to think about solar and wind on these gorgeous mountains, we've got to get away from coal. It's a matter of being comfortable in your home, warm in the winter and not suffocating in the summer. Not having to sacrifice your mortgage to be comfortable.

– Felisha Chase

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As you can see in the video, far more than two people are involved in suffocating him, i would urge them to reconsider the other people ... who are clearly involved in the killing of Cornelius.

– Fieger Law -RRB- Fieger

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Something is wrong with my health because I'm suffocating as I breathe, my eyes are always in pain and itchy.

– Pitak Meesopa

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I believe this ruling frees women from one shackle that had been suffocating them.

– Kim Su-jung

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's so suffocating and overwhelming, and you want to get through it the best way you can, but the culture of fear is just paralyzing, and it's that shame and stigma that's just so ingrained in Irish society.

– Lucy Watmough

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What more crime can a woman commit by suffocating her sensuous body behind the tight dress. Stay Nude, Breathe Life!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
6 years ago

When life only consists of infantile first world problems and day-by-day futilities, our mind is eager for other values, which should fill the unbearable emptiness. If we are suffocating under the pressure of the banality of evil and losing out to the slowly infiltrating cancerous cells of indifference, resilience and redirection is required. ("The world was somewhere else" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I wanted you to see most of the body, and I wanted to leave some negative space so that it's not too much with the patterns, i like my images to look pretty clean and not too suffocating.

– Keyana Tahmaseb

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We all rushed out to the open and the next moment a huge wall of snow just piled on me, i managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave. I wiggled and used my claws to dig as much as I could. I was suffocating, I could not breathe. But I knew I had to survive.

– Kuduni Sherpa

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

– George Steiner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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