garrote

How To Use garrote In A Sentence

• The second pronunciation of "garrote" sounds like "quote" and the current meaning of garrote is to execute by strangulation. Sarah Palin's most famous quote and the problem of a quote becoming famous in a misremembered form.
• Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
• When the governor learned this, irritated because his order of arrest had not proved effectual, he ordered the soldiers to be arrested who constituted the guard, and would have had them garrote the alferez Don Francisco de Rivera, who was in command at that gate, because they had not killed a friar and taken prisoner Don Pedro de Monroy. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, co
• ‘And I would like to point out I can use guitar string as garrote wire,’ Val chirruped almost pleasantly, though the half-berserk glimmer in his eyes warned of sincerity.
• It's painful to say that in front of them, but she was brutally murdered with a garrote, a device used like a noose with a handle.
• It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.
• She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
• You felt instinctively as if something terrible had happened here: that the tribesmen had crucified the station master perhaps, or garroted the ticket collector.
• So, I don't know why he suddenly went to that basement room, fashioned a garrote from something that was right there in plain sight and brutally murdered her.
• She was about to walk out of the restroom when she felt the garrote wrap around her neck.