stultify - use in sentences

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  • completely: Here was a disaster her ingenious scheme completely stultified.
  • not: Finally, the mystery of holiness is that the rectitude is combined, not stultified, with compassion.

Object

  • heat: Second, it would be held in the open air, not in the sometimes stultifying heat and congestion of a marquee.
  • debate: This is not some artificial, stultifying debate, far-removed from the needs of real people.
  • atmosphere: The stultifying atmosphere of service life was difficult to endure.
  • regulation: Their goal is to frighten the public and intimidate regulators into further tightening the already stultifying regulation of biotechnology.

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  • quite: Interesting as an exercise, I think, but quite stultifying in the artistic sense.

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