1·I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift.
我的呼吸器上的管子脱落时，我差一点窒息。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Many suffocated trying to crawl out of the tunnel, Mr. Zhou said. Only three or four survived.
周先生说，许多被窒息的工人企图爬出矿井，只有三四人死里逃生。
3·We feel suffocated with the amount of things on our plate and the dizzying, non-stop pace that life is happening.
我们对眼前要做的大量的事情和生活中极快的、无法停止的节奏感到窒息。
4·Most of the hares are dead on arrival, having suffocated or frozen to death in their cardboard confines, but that hasn’t slowed a proliferation of orders.
大部分兔子在运输途中在硬纸箱里窒息或者活活被冻死了。 尽管如此，网络订单仍然纷涌而至。
5·So much was in the air that there are reports of small children and the elderly having suffocated on the fumes in their homes.
有报道指出，由于空气中瓦斯浓度过大，一些老人小孩甚至在家中窒息。