How to Use "stifle" with Example Sentences

1. Patents are supposed to encourage innovation , not stifle it .

2. Why is this 13th-century law still permitted to stifle legitimate dissent ?

3. They have to let new markets develop , or stifle them .

4. B vitamins can help stifle homocysteine , an amino acid that damages blood vessels .

5. He warned that unilateral action by individual countries could destabilise the global economy and stifle growth .