How To Use Strangled In A Sentence
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Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
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The pond water was strangled with poisonous weed.
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Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
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The victim had been strangled with a belt.
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Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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He strangled the urge to bang his head backwards.
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Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel!
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They suffocated and strangled me simultaneously, and I had to fight to surface for air.
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She said death could occur in such a way if a victim had been strangled or if the palm of the hand or a ligature had been pushed against the neck.
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As Radcliffe shattered a world record in each one it appeared that she became more and more strangled by her own expectations and those of others.
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People shot and stabbed and strangled each other in sleazy bars and hillside mansions, strip malls, abandoned houses and parking lots.
Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
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We have an autopsy report that clearly demonstrates that she was ligated, tied by the wrists, she was sexually assaulted, she was strangled to death by manual force from the rear.
CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2005
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He also claims to have been punched, kicked and strangled by guards ten days later when he protested about being given less than an hour's exercise.
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At last, though, he was forced to admit that children would not have run so far, and he circled back toward the cabin, still calling intermittently, in hoarse, strangled croaks.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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She showed them, but the thieves were still unsatisfied and nearly strangled her to death.
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Theresa Stevens, 21, was beaten, repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself.
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A strangled scream escaped my throat as the great white shark ripped the protective cage to pieces, as if it was made of matchwood…
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She felt her creativity was being strangled.
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The original Thugs were bands of roving criminals in India who strangled and robbed travellers.
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I refer to slavery, Mistuh Comber, which they affect to abominate, but which we of the South hold to be a nat'ral condition which, for better or worse, is inevitable A strangled oath came from within Clotho's hood.
THE NUMBERS
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She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
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She had been strangled with a garrotte made from a stick and cord and her skull was fractured.
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As he burst through the surface, his strangled breathing was the only sound other than the rushing water that pulled him farther downstream.
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Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
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As noted liberal historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. reported Listening to Eleanor was like listening to a chipmonk being strangled.
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This silence is pregnant with strangled screams.
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Nilsen made sure the men he killed were insensible from drink before he strangled them, and wrote tenderly about them after the killing was over.
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She let out a strangled cry when he grabbed a handful of her hair and tugged her head back.
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The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in mens Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration.
Paras. 20-39
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A strangled noise came from the woman's throat.
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Facing having to pay out a hefty divorce settlement, he had the motive. He also had form, having nearly strangled Arlene to death just weeks both she disappeared.
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She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
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He had strangled a prostitute to death when she disagreed with him.
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Many fail, crushed by competition, starved by high costs or strangled by burdensome regulations. "
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[...] The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.
Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
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Vicki heard a quick inhalation of breath, a stifled cry, and a strangled curse followed by the slamming of the door to the room.
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The principal wives of a great lord (ariki) strangled themselves.
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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.
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-- When a person is drowned, strangled, or choked in any way, what is called asphyxia occurs.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
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After being kidnapped Julie was held prisoner in a coffin-like box before being beaten unconscious and strangled.
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Prosecutors said he strangled him and later dismembered his girlfriend in Greece in 1997.
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Tielle sat up in bed, her mouth open, a strangled cry escaping her throat, sweat dripping from her.
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A strangled sob forced its way past my constricted throat muscles.
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His creative drive has been strangled by his sense of political guilt.
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Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was disputative, asked him what was the name of the mufti who was lately strangled.
Don’t Just Do Something–Stand There! | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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He was careful not to leave fingerprints at the crime scenes and he strangled all his victims with ligatures (cords, ropes, etc.) rather than murder them violently, leaving lots of blood and gore on the murder scenes.
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Anna was raped and strangled by a man who was on bail awaiting trial for rape.
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Now, who recalls that it was her group, New Forum, that organized the silent candlelight marches that surrounded and eventually strangled the regime of Erich Honecker?
Remembering Baerbel Bohley, an artist who helped bring down the Berlin Wall
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My river run condos as attitash mountain is upright strangled of this 3d import show and she is preferably 21!!!! as soon as she sees the models of observations at the entrance, she doesn't want to close in.
Wii-volution
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I gave a strangled cry before bursting into tears on Adelle's shoulder.
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His voice sounded oddly strangled, and she opened her eyes to find his face unexpectedly close to hers.
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I know one officer who nearly strangled his son because he caught him using his shaver, for fear he might cut himself.
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It says less about the logic of reform than about the poverty of a debate that's strangled by interest groups and ideology on both sides.
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His expression stark, he admitted, “Just two nights ago, I…I almost strangled her to death while I slept.”
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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Somehow the thought struck him as extremely funny and he strangled the shout of laughter that arose in his throat.
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That will teach me to read a thread fully, had I have known you were joining the PW's, I would have said, ask for a transfer, you will be spending the rest of your career listening to cats being strangled and eating pig clag for brekky otherwise.
Army Rumour Service
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The miserable prisoners, yoked at the neck, their faces burned red by this sudden exposure to the sun after years of darkness, were led up one by one to the carnifex, who took them down into the Carcer and strangled them—thankfully out of sight, but still I could see that Cicero was keeping his face averted and talking fixedly to Hybrida.
CONSPIRATA
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She believes that the new measures could be valuable but said there was a risk that the benefits could be strangled by bureaucracy and costs.
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Below, on the solid ground, stakes with chains were driven into the ground; while near the gibbet was a post with a chain in which those who were to be mercifully strangled before being thrown into the flames were to be placed.
The Ferryman of Brill and other stories
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The second girl made a strangled sound in her throat.
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In the end, the struggle against the central powers exhausted and strangled the impulse to freedom associated with growing equality, and the middle classes succumbed to being administered.
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Ben had swung into his saddle and pulled the buckskin around to follow his sons and the buckboard out of the yard when he heard it: a half strangled yelp followed swiftly by what was obviously drawers opening and then slamming shut.
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The good news was the tram, all 40 metres of it, looked well, performed well and could well live up to its promise to be a modern, efficient, comfortable, nippy form of public transport in a car-strangled city.
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I was beaten and buffeted, smashed under by the great San Pablo whitecaps, and strangled by the hollow tide-rip waves which flung themselves into my eyes, nose, and mouth.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS
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A post-mortem revealed that the dead man had been hit on the side of the head with a blunt instrument before being strangled and dismembered.
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Strangled woman 'gurgled' on phone to mum THE mother of a woman strangled by her husband received a call that sounded like somebody was "drowning" on the night her daughter died, a court has been told.
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If he is a genuine hyracotherium, unusually special," said Varian in a strangled voice.
Cattle Town
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If he is a genuine hyracotherium, unusually special, " said Varian in a strangled voice.
Dinosaur Planet
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Her father's face had suddenly tightened as though he was being strangled by invisible hands.
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And the very day before his end, it being told him that the magistrate Granius deferred the payment of a public debt, in expectation of his death, he sent for him to his house, and placing his attendants about him, caused him to be strangled; but through the straining of his voice and body, the imposthume breaking, he lost a great quantity of blood.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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This measure had the desired result, and Leon was strangled, whilst asleep, by a zambo, who was his godfather.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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Strangled to a kind of catatonia, she falls upon a daybed and has her throat slashed - by this point it is unclear whether that is adding insult to injury or vice versa.
31 Screams: Uta Levka
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Jen nodded, a strangled sound coming out of her throat that sounded like ‘yes.’
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With a voice some called soulful and others called strangled, 17-year-old Diana Vickers was last seen sobbing on stage at the X
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For years, the organization was strangled by excessive bureaucracy.
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The victim had been strangled with a belt.
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Bloodied: Strangled woman 'gurgled' on phone to mum
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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A post-mortem revealed that the dead man had been hit on the side of the head with a blunt instrument before being strangled and dismembered.
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Salty water cascaded in torrents down my face and my sobs were strangled and helpless.
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A choked sound came from my throat, a strangled sound.
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Further reflexion and experiment showed me my subject strangled in that extreme of rigour.
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Economies die more slowly, strangled by fear and despair.
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Just console yourself with the thought that one day this woman will either be forced to convert to Islam, submit to a clitorectomy and wear a burqa, or she will be slowly strangled by being hanged from a crane jib.
Another Girl, Another Planet « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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With a voice oscillating between organ-like thunder and strangled quietness, Gambon brings out Hamm's terminal desperation.
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A strangled shriek of rage and panic caught in her throat, and she struggled like a dying fish hooked through the cheek.
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Plans have been drawn up to safeguard Cumbria's thriving local meat industry from being strangled by bureaucracy.
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After all, what was the fine exploit thy husband achieved, if he did kil a hydra in a marsh or that monster of Nemea? which he caught in a snare, for all he says he strangled it to death in his arms.
Heracles
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A strangled laugh escaped her throat as she clung to him tighter, squeezing her eyes shut.
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When he came into his house and saw himself in so great poverty, he called the devils and gave himself to them; then came to him three devils which cast down Roba upon the soler and after took him by the neck, and it seemed that they would have estrangled him, in such wise that he unnethe might speak.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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Schalholt and afterward for certaine bolde attempts being taken by one Thorualdus de Modruuollum (as it is reported) and a great stone being bound to his necke, hee was cast aliue into the riuer of Schalholt, (which taketh name of the bridge) and was there strangled.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Freitas was strangled with a nylon cord.
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Victims were shot, strangled, poisoned, drowned, garrotted, thrown from cliffs and hacked to pieces.
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Black opposition leaders are arrested, a press clampdown begins and resistance is strangled.
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I nearly leapt out from my seat, a strangled squeak uttered from somewhere in my throat as an unexpected voice spoke from behind me.
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Victims were shot, strangled, poisoned, drowned, garrotted, thrown from cliffs and hacked to pieces.
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She rolled onto her side and retched up all the water she had swallowed, a strangled sob following.
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Department of Motor Vehicles now strangled with bureaucratic red tape.
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Was she smothered, was she strangled, why wasn't there any blood?
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It's hard to imagine the Iranians passively watching their economy strangled for lack of gasoline (which they import), without at least firing a few missiles at the blockaders.
Mark Weisbrot: Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran
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The little thing was dead, but still warm; she stooped to lift it, and her distress turned to horror when she discovered that it had been strangled by twisting twice round its throat the necklet she had given to Lanrivain.
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For years, the organization was strangled by excessive bureaucracy.
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This is meant to convey a general slovenliness, and it does, but it also keeps the character removed from us in a way that I'm not sure, especially combined with his strangled voice, is good for the performance.
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She had been beaten and strangled and died from multiple injuries and asphyxia.
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I needed a history more complete than the strangled bits that he had owned and passed on to me—a short, brutal tale of having been trapped as a stowaway on a ship.
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Ben had swung into his saddle and pulled the buckskin around to follow his sons and the buckboard out of the yard when he heard it: a half strangled yelp followed swiftly by what was obviously drawers opening and then slamming shut.
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Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death.
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Next, Sihamba slipped off her fur cloak, leaving herself naked except for the moocha round her middle, and, clasping her hands behind her back with the assegai between them, she drew the riem taut, and leaned against the wall of the hut after the fashion of one who is about to be pulled from the ground and strangled.
Swallow: a tale of the great trek
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Here, the wide-eyed innocent must wise up quickly or else they will get strangled, shanked or shot.
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But Seyf el-Mulook got possession of the sparrow and strangled it, and the jinnee fell upon the ground a heap of black ashes.
Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
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Alex's cold hands went to Michelle's neck, and strangled her for dear life.
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Men spoke to him of the mild beams of Christian charity, and where they pointed he saw only the yellow glare of the stake; they talked of the gentle solace of Christian faith, and he heard only the shrieks of the thousands and tens of thousands whom faithful Christian persecutors had racked, strangled, gibbeted, burned, broken on the wheel.
Voltaire
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Then the Nigerians will fan across Monrovia, seize the port and allow humanitarian access to the strangled city.
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The autopsy revealed that poor JonBenet was strangled to death by ligature applied through the twisting of a fairly intricate garrote.
Craig Alan Silverman: JonBenet Truths Might Still Be Told
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It came again, a strangled cry from the room next door.
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Joan, who had gone into the bungalow, tossed down a strip of white calico, in which old Telepasse was promptly wrapped, and he stood forth, resplendent and purified, withal he still spat and strangled from the soap-suds with which Noa Noah had gargled his throat.
Chapter 11
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Make sure you only ever wear a quick release clip-on tie unless you want to end up getting strangled by your own tie.
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He had tried hard not to think what "Booster's" face would look like; he had tried hard not to laugh as long as Peggy's head was on his shoulder, for fear of hurting her feelings; but when she took it off he did give one half-strangled snort; for it really was the rummest thing that had ever happened to him.
The Tree of Heaven
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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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Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel!
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Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott
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Creativity is being strangled by financial pressures.
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Maria tried to hold her tears in, but they escaped through strangled hiccups, and small shudders.
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He escaped, but his kinsman later strangled him to death.
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The looniest proposal was for a “snake call,” a small device that made a strangled shhhhh sound that was supposed to convince Japanese soldiers that they were surrounded by snakes, which—to judge by folklore—inspired inordinate fear and would theoretically cause panic, confusion, and surrender.
A Covert Affair
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Another aspirant franchise was strangled in the cradle of its brutal opening weekend: Green Lantern, starring perennial Nearly-Man Ryan Reynolds, won't be back for a sequel; it's bound for the ashcan of failed franchises, home already to Billy Zane's The Phantom and Ben Affleck's Daredevil.
The Hangover II, Final Destination 5: will the summer of sequels never end?
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But the silence of the night gave way to strangled sobs in my throat.
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They say he strangled an entire pack of Wolf Cubs and fed their bodies to a school of carp?
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Both of these books are smart, surprising and original, but so are some of Ms. Martin's other novels, especially "The Great Divorce" and "The Confessions of Edwin Day," which begins, promisingly, with this sentence: "My mother liked to say Freud should have been strangled in his crib.
Dear Book Lover: Underappreciated Authors
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The acoustic guitar sounds a strangled folk tune and the scrape of the strings is sourced and dragged through the track.
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Jason wrestled the weapon from his foe's hands, and, right there, strangled him to death.
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A strangled scream escaped my throat as the great white shark ripped the protective cage to pieces, as if it was made of matchwood…
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I uttered a strangled yelp of sheer terror, as the unidentified floating object moved jerkily toward me.
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Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
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She'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord.
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And don't be alarmed by the mention of electronics, multiplex cabling does away with the mountains of wire that strangled the XM.
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Is this country so bound up in red tape that compassion has been strangled?
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On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.
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Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
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Or you might need some interesting and kinky stuff to loosen up a very strangled libido.
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There was a strangled cry from the other room.
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A strangled cry rose in her throat and her eyes grew to the size of saucers.
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She heard gunshots, loud and sharp through the air and a strangled scream ripped from her throat, as she tasted the dirt.
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“Omigod,” he heard her whisper on an indrawn breath, which was quickly followed by a strangled hiccup.
Dragon Warrior
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She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods.
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In practice, their lives are devoured by activities and strangled with attachments.
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I strangled an impulse to cough.
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He had been strangled with a piece of a T-shirt which had been knotted at the back of his neck.
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The British rapper has a strangled yawp of a voice (occasionally he swallows his words whole), his rhymes are all about the rough patches of street life and romance, and his stage name suggests a teetering instability.
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I expect him to break into a strangled stutter as I wring his neck, to beg for his life.
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Police reported that her husband, identified as Sher Mohammad and possibly tied to the local militia, and his mother, Wali Hazrata, strangled Storai three months after she gave birth to her third daughter.
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The High Court in Edinburgh heard how after he had strangled her with his bare hands he tried to decapitate her with a bread knife.
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a strangled scream
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It's a wonder I wasn't strangled before opening night, but at that age, precocious is cute.
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Arin felt a lump form in the back of his throat, a strangled gasp being all that could escape.
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I heard him beat against the door, and then fall to his feet with a strangled sigh.
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Schalholt and afterward for certaine bolde attempts being taken by one Thorualdus de Modruuollum (as it is reported) and a great stone being bound to his necke, hee was cast aliue into the riuer of Schalholt, (which taketh name of the bridge) and was there strangled.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He strangled her following an argument and wrapped her body in bin bags, bundled it into the boot of her car and drove 100 miles to woodland in North Yorkshire, where he dumped her in a ditch.
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It drew to a halt in front of the elegant stone entrance to the main building, and then began to trundle slowly backwards again until its occupant yanked on the handbrake, which evoked from the car a sort of strangled "eek".
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Also in the 1970s, final girls and victims alike suffered from what Syracuse University professor Kendall Phillips calls "sexualized terror," wherein any woman who was sexually active got axed (or knifed or strangled or garroted).
Women In Horror Films
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Doctor Horatio Holliday has been found strangled to death in his home, slumped over his dining room table.
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A post-mortem on the body revealed that the victim had been strangled.
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Traditionally, such a dramatic Credit crunch would have strangled the economy and precipitated a deep recession.
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He had been strangled with a ligature and his wrists were tied.
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When her bare leg met the freezing air below, however, she let out a strangled yelp and jumped away.
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Finally, he strangled her to death with a gauze bandage.
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As high school grad classes of the new millennium file into university, they bring with them a strangled enthusiasm.
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Althia broke off, emitting a strangled noise in her throat and burying her face in Briar's shoulder.
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She wanted to scream, but a strangled sounding gasp was all that emitted from her.
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She had been strangled with a garrotte made from a stick and cord and her skull was fractured.
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She and commercials are the only things on television that can get me shouting strangled abuse at the set.
