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    Use "strangling" in a sentence

    strangling example sentences

    strangling


    1. of ceremonial symbols a strangling feeling hit their guts


    2. For a second, I came near to strangling him but just managed to stop myself


    3. I grit my teeth and consider lunging across the table and strangling her


    4. 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life


    5. “I don’t want any loose ends strangling us


    6. Nezahualcoyotl, needless to say, was never suspected of having any part in the revolt, but his son was duly condemned and executed by the proscribed method for the ruling classes of Anahuac, strangling


    7. We may never know the full extent of this policy, however we believe there has been a strangling effect on evil and those who perpetuate it


    8. and I thought the cord was strangling the baby


    9. If there ever was a sister in need of strangling by her brother, I was


    10. A trap in the frame would close like a guillotine upon the animal's neck, half strangling and holding it fast, although the corral's log walls quaked

    11. atop of Robert strangling him


    12. She grabbed his hand, attempting to loosen his strangling hold


    13. She tried to hit him back but the blow had disoriented her and before she knew it he had pinned her down and was strangling her with his massive hands and whatever Diane tried to do to get out of it she could not manage


    14. She was stuck bending backwards with Nathan strangling her


    15. But martin started questioning, `Why was King Nathan strangling you? Why did he call you Jansenist? Gorham should know about this!'


    16. `And who was the person strangling her?'


    17. 'I love you!' she cried fiercely, writhing her body against his, almost strangling him in her wild embrace, shaking him in her abandon


    18. His sword met and clove through flesh and bone, and something went heavily to the floor with a strangling cry


    19. In that instant of horror and panic Balthus started up—and then a muscular arm out of the darkness locked fiercely about his throat, strangling his yell


    20. “Cursed,” I said and felt my lungs strangling

    21. He is an outlander, an adventurer who seized the crown by force during a time of civil strife, strangling King Namedides with his own hands, upon the very throne


    22. “And you?” Said Heracles, strangling out his sobs


    23. Beads of perspiration in large amounts streamed down his face and neck, the room having become suddenly very warm, and his throat felt tight as if an invisible force were slowly strangling the very life from him and seemed to swell as if from heat or lack of water that would prevent him from calling out for help, though no one would surely hear him


    24. The monk then took his two giant muscular hands and began strangling Nostradamus


    25. Then he took out a plastic paper bag out of his briefcase and violently put it over the captive‘s head, strangling him


    26. Those social programs are only a part of the rules and regulations that purportedly promote what's good and fair, but, in fact, are strangling the American economy


    27. A glance at his son James showed him to be frozen with a look of horror on his young face, while his wife Mary was strangling her sobs, nearly hysterical


    28. Soltam’s passed out nearly at once from the atrocious pain, while it took a bit longer to Nancy to kill Nazir by strangling him with her legs


    29. Having followed up failure to secure our visa in Istanbul with a double dose of illness, and now on top of it all, a wipe out, in which it seemed on first wince we had inflicted serious damage on the tandem and ourselves, we could have chosen to utter such phrases as “Just our luck!” or “Why do these things always happen to us” or “Jesus, I think I’ve split me kneecap!” but not us! Instead, Mark chose to utter a strange high-pitched sound not unlike an asthmatic albino strangling a cow


    30. Mark was midway through strangling one of worst offenders when the crowd parted at the approach of a smartly suited stranger

    31. One minute he was tender and almost loving telling me how much he cared about me and the next he was striking me as hard as he could or strangling me while he performed his sick pleasures


    32. “You do, miss?” Said the boy, strangling his tears


    33. It would take all Runs like Cheetah could do to keep them from strangling themselves


    34. Aquarius did all he could to keep from strangling Samara


    35. Don't write me such letters--don't, don't, don't! My heart sinks when I see you deliberately setting about strangling our friendship


    36. Impetuosity sometimes gets the better of me, and out begins to rush a question; but up to now I have succeeded in catching it and strangling it before it is complete


    37. After strangling the two small children, the wife, and finally Jonathon himself, Alfred set himself in a chair in the Maybricks living room and shot himself in the chest


    38. As he sat that February evening he brooded over the fact that Jarad Hortmuller had for the second time escaped from the Concord prison, strangling a guard to death and obtaining his weapon in the process


    39. The indemnities they were forced to pay, the world, the trade embargo strangling them to death was not a figment of their imagination; it was real, the slow starvation of the entire nation, the Great Depression was not a figment of their imagination; it was real


    40. By England strangling off all the other European’s dreams of colonization and expansion and empire building; it left the other empires no choice but to go to war on land instead of by sea

    41. Her vision went dark as he hit her head again and again and strangling her


    42. What he felt like right now was strangling the smugness out of the man sitting opposite him


    43. twenty-three, which could inflict the punishment of strangling


    44. The judgment, the council of twenty-three, which could inflict the punishment of strangling


    45. Deville said, strangling the steering wheel


    46. to yank it off, strangling the doctor in the process and letting out a salvo of piercing shrieks


    47. more minutes of teachers chasing strangling students into line


    48. `It is these pretended Christians who do not practise what they preach, because, all the time they are singing their songs of Brotherhood and Love, they are fighting with each other, and strangling each other and trampling each other underfoot in their horrible "Battle of Life"!


    49. His blued feet out of turnedup trousers slapped the clammy sand, a dull brick muffler strangling his unshaven neck


    50. "My soul chooseth strangling rather than life", and the grave is more easy for me than this dungeon

































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    Synonyms for "strangling"

    choking strangling strangulation throttling

    "strangling" definitions

    the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe