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How to use strangled in a sentence

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Plans have been drawn up to safeguard Cumbria's thriving local meat industry from being strangled by bureaucracy.
She and commercials are the only things on television that can get me shouting strangled abuse at the set.
Salty water cascaded in torrents down my face and my sobs were strangled and helpless.
I know one officer who nearly strangled his son because he caught him using his shaver, for fear he might cut himself.
She let out a strangled cry when he grabbed a handful of her hair and tugged her head back.
With a strangled yell of frustration Sam attempted to dial Alice's number, but received a busy signal.
My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
I gave a strangled cry of discomfort, and my father's shape, black in the dim kitchen light, appeared behind the man's stooped figure.
Alex's cold hands went to Michelle's neck, and strangled her for dear life.
Jason wrestled the weapon from his foe's hands, and, right there, strangled him to death.
She showed them, but the thieves were still unsatisfied and nearly strangled her to death.
A strangled cry rose in her throat and her eyes grew to the size of saucers.
Arin felt a lump form in the back of his throat, a strangled gasp being all that could escape.
A strangled laugh escaped her throat as she clung to him tighter, squeezing her eyes shut.
A strangled shriek of rage and panic caught in her throat, and she struggled like a dying fish hooked through the cheek.
The look on my face combined with the little strangled noises that seemed to come from my throat of their own accord seemed answer enough.
As he burst through the surface, his strangled breathing was the only sound other than the rushing water that pulled him farther downstream.
She heard gunshots, loud and sharp through the air and a strangled scream ripped from her throat, as she tasted the dirt.
She wanted to scream, but a strangled sounding gasp was all that emitted from her.
I felt my fists clenching, my face contorting, feeling, not hearing the burning, strangled sob that clawed its way from my throat.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Enraged both at himself and the pardoner, he would gladly have strangled the fellow, had he but come upon him at that instant.
On the Fiji Islands a wife was strangled on her husband's grave and buried with him.
And I suppose if we strangled the children and poleaxed the husbands it would leave women free for higher culture.
In due time he was dragged across, half strangled, and dreadfully beslubbered by the feculent waters.
If by any caesarian operation it chances to come into being it is promptly strangled.
Reinecke was soon at work, and by daybreak every goose was strangled.
He looked at me all agape, as if he had been half strangled.
Hath Alice been strangled, or in anywise hurt, by this wicked spirit?
He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.
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.
If I had been in your place, Brandon, I would have strangled him or thrown him under the wheels sooner than let him go.
Every man on board was suffering from inflamed eyes, and they coughed and strangled like a crew of tuberculosis patients.
Martha leaped into the air with outspread arms, and hung there, strangled.
I could have strangled her with my hands, and Yolande, also!
Forensic tests on the baby's body revealed he was strangled with a piece of cloth before being dumped.
Half strangled, he plucked the cigar from his mouth and stamped on it.
The Emperor, yielding to political necessity, gave her into the hands of the envoy with the order that she should be strangled.
Mark strangled over a kernel of corn and stared, teary-eyed, at Billy.
Was he going to be strangled like a clerk at the hands of a footpad?
But round the throat of the still-born babe I tied a string of fibre as though I had strangled it, and wrapped it loosely in a piece of matting.
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