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How to use strangle in a sentence

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Then he grasped the greasy neck of the flinching little monarch and proceeded to strangle him.
Thomas lunged at Corrine and grabbed her around the neck, trying to strangle her.
I promise to pull my socks up this week, not least because without urgent attention, fat hen threatens to strangle all my seedlings.
The strategic struggle for Afghanistan was a fight to strangle the other's logistics.
I growled and turned to strangle his scrawny neck, but I quickly remembered I was pinned against the wall.
Maybe it matters not a whit whether I strangle indecently my infinitives, or whether I split them decently with care.
All kinds of plastic packaging, metal cans, and other rubbish entangle and strangle sea turtles, sea birds, sea lions and fish.
In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali.
It was a wonder Sorsha did not strangle them in her frenzy of relief and gratitude.
The Thugs strangle their victims, steal their possessions, and bury them in pre-dug pits.
When he unhelpfully insisted on surviving, the multi-talented Borgias produced brother Cesare to strangle him in his sickbed.
Why does the left in Ireland have no problem siding objectively with those determined to strangle democracy at birth in Iraq?
Police found that Huang would tempt his victims into lying on the killing machine and suddenly strangle them to death with a strap.
We now had each other in mutual strangle holds, right arms cocked to punch at full force.
Without it, red tape will strangle plans for the Queen to unveil the memorial on the eve of the 60th anniversary of VE Day.
The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength.
If it were true, it would strangle any hopes for better relations with the United States.
Jamie growled to himself and lifted his hands in a tense strained pose, ready to strangle.
When I get my hands on her, I'm going to strangle her until her neck is two inches thick!
In Wharton's world, other people and the rigid expectations of stratified society conspire to strangle individual happiness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He must not beat her or strangle her with a bowstring or drop her into the Bosporus.
In due time you will get a really fine crop of groundsel, charlock, and slugs, with enough bind-weed to strangle the sea-serpent.
The flapper is released from the strangle hold that is throttling the rest of us.
Stan was not sure that he could hold the headlock he had slid down into a strangle grip.
When the savage desires to rob you, he may attempt to strangle and maim you.
Also the camel-goose might fling his neck about the villain, and strangle him.
He said to himself that he would be able to strangle the Rougons alone if he could ever get them into a corner.
Seeing how difficult he proved to strangle, they must have cursed that amulet of his.
It would strangle this mutinous Paris in the iron grip of the foreign regiments.
A sudden thought seemed to strangle her, and she called no more.
Mr. moneybags in the front pew has got a strangle hold on the parson.
Her body was found on April 28, 2006, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a pit, the bootlace used to strangle her still around her neck.
No, lest on the first demonstration I make in favor of Mehemet Ali, the Sultan send me the bowstring, and make my secretaries strangle me.
Can he compass his spirit with meekness, and strangle a natural oath?
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
Villefort violently unbuttoned his great-coat, which seemed to strangle him, and passing his livid hand across his forehead, entered his study.
Of course it seemed ridiculous that a thug should strangle the old man.
Would it be unchristian to strangle such women with their own garters?
He would take his brainchildren and strangle them, throw them away, if some evidence was adduced that wasn't explainable by his hypothesis.
It was a thing to be driven out of the mind, to be drugged with poppies, to be strangled lest it might strangle one itself.
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