How To Use Strangling In A Sentence
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Is that strangling the nascent ‘alarm tone’ market?
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Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development.
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This tight collar is strangling me.
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His weapon of choice is a deadly flail and he doesn't balk at finishing off wounded soldiers - or at sneaking up on them and strangling them.
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The first clinical sign of myocardial ischemia is usually angina pectoris, a term used to describe the strangling chest pain experienced by many patients with ischemic heart disease.
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As an aside, it occurred to me that Tyrion could have fulfilled the prophecy if he'd killed Cersei with the same improvised garotte he used to take his revenge on Shae -- and that Jaime might find the Hand's chain of office "handy" himself for the purpose, given that his gold prosthetic isn't really suitable for tasks like strangling psychopathic sisters.
Casting clues and possible solutions
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It was a strange in-between time for Manila, a time when the bind seemed especially strangling.
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All these people, peoples and more dominate Andes; page after page of iconic and anonymous endeavour are laid over the salt-flats, volcanoes, deserts, strangling figs and pampa as Jacobs winds south through the mountains.
Andes by Michael Jacobs
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Finnegans Wake
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To me, this may not be killing the Golden Goose - but it is close to a long-term strangling session.
GraniteGrok
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Charlie is accused of strangling a white boy to death and will be electrocuted, but the father's homophobia prevents him from being there for his son.
Irene Monroe: Black, Homophobic Horror Flicks
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But suddenly, she had both hands around his neck and was strangling him.
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“He said: ‘When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.’”
Sleepless
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It's just like strangling his throat.
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Dinner was a great success despite me nearly strangling my BIL for phoning up to tell me how to cook the sprouts properly!
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Sara wrapped her legs around Dallas's waist and held on to his neck almost strangling him.
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He that had deserved strangling was either drowned in some river, or choked by a squinancy [angina].
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The children were well at night, and found dead in the morning, with a little blood on their noses, and blaes at the roots of their ears; which were obvious symptoms of strangling ....
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Minutes before a Chesterfield County judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison for strangling a former flight attendant-turned prostitute, the man who once aspired to be a police officer delivered a 10-minute rant on what he described as the injustice of his prosecution.
News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
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In his velvet house coat, his chins carelessly ranged over a strangling collar and his little black eyes hopeful, he was not by any means an uncomic figure.
The Fashion in Shrouds
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I felt like throwing the plate against the wall * i break stuff when im angry and i throw stuff* i felt like strangling Bu Tootee and the woman.
Safat: The KuwaitBlogs' Aggregator
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In the end I got so cross that I just ripped the weed away, causing great damage to the semi-succulent beneath; like trying to cut the strangling hand of corporatism from the throat of a natural healthy society and realising that the organism has been infested to such a degree that it may never recover from the surgery.
August 6th, 2006
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The Spearman fought his bitter, convulsive coughs, strangling his sounds against a white-knuckled fist, and Zarantha held his wasted body in her arms.
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It was only too evident that if he had carried out the idea of strangling
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions.
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In the first nine issues we've already had Batman ask Robin if he was retarded, The Joker strangling a woman he's just had sex with, Wonder Woman calling a passerby a "sperm bank," Batman and Black Canary having illicit sex on a filthy dock after just meeting.
Every Day Is Like Wednesday
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I have firm proposals to reduce the bureaucracy which is strangling farming.
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Tatsuya brought his face closer, grabbing Tomoya's neck, strangling him slightly.
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A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes
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Put a face to the obscene greed that's strangling our beloved country!
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Wheeling about choking and strangling from the smoke, his streamingly smarting eyes barely able to discern the fiery trail he had laid.
Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
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I had to severely restrain myself from strangling her right there and then.
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Then, in some unexplained way, the sprocket chain tore loose and managed to wrap itself about the boy's neck, strangling him.
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I observe three committed young men strangling their instruments as if wrestling with man-eating anacondas.
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The two return to Ingolstadt to find a letter from Frankenstein's father announcing the strangling death of Victor's brother, William (I: 6: 2).
Plot Summary
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The current monetary policy is strangling the economy.
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Robert Chambers, the so-called preppie killer who spent 15 years in prison for strangling a woman during what he called rough sex, has been sentenced to 19 years on a drug charge.
New York Sun - All Articles
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At least you don’t look like the collar’s strangling you, as it does to poor Webb, and the blinking is not noticeable.
Waldo Jaquith - “For the Record” video.
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Mr Haschka said he did not recall strangling her but "must have" after she came at him with a
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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I should be happy, but I'm so overwhelmed by shame, confusion and fear that they are strangling the feelings of love I have for him.
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The only surprise that she then felt was caused by the idea of strangling Caffie and taking enough money from his safe to clear himself from debt, and also because he said -- as a consequence of this act -- speaking of the remorse of an intelligent man, that his conscience would not reproach him, since for him conscience did not exist.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Sawyer’s chain strangling was brutal and strangely therapeutic.
The Tail Section » Revisiting Lost’s Third Season: Episodes 18-19
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The shadow emitted a terrible sound, an awful wheeze of frenzied laughter suppressed until it became strangling.
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It is these Right Wing talk show hosts who incessantly revile the federal bureaucrats as devils incarnate issuing unnecessary economy-strangling regulations merely to solidify their own continued employment.
Edward Flattau: Environmental Masochism
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Republicans aim to end all "job-killing regulations" -- especially those that, according to House Speaker John Boehner, are "strangling" business with detailed requirements over health, safety, the environment, corporate governance and finance.
Robert Reich: Why the Republican Attack on "Job-Killing Regulations" Is Dumb
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It was only too evident that if he had carried out the idea of strangling Caffie, all the difficulties against which he had struggled, and which would overwhelm him, if not the following day, at least in a few days, would have disappeared immediately.
Conscience — Complete
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Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy.
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Her voice had shaken badly and more than once, he had caught the sound of her strangling a sob.
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For some, this month and the work of the Ramadan drummer is a source of income otherwise absent in Gaza under complete and strangling siege.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: The Experience Of Ramadan In Gaza
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It took all of Emerald's self control to prevent herself from strangling the annoyance.
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Dougal thrust Gino backward into the wall, his fingers tight around his neck, literally strangling him.
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In the Autumn, when the convolvulus has taken over suburban Australian gardens, strangling trees, insinuating itself into garden sheds, creeping across garden paths, the very name declares its despised status as a weed.
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It took all my will power to keep myself from strangling that person to death.
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I had not an inkling that it was two hernias slowly extruding through abdominal muscle and strangling my colon -- nor of the carcinoid tumor sitting like a time bomb in my appendix.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Government attacked for strangling the self-build homes movement
Self-build homes face a new set of obstacles
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When we worry we are strangling the very hope and faith of our future and the achieving of our goals in Christ.
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Although both swallow-worts share the ominous ‘dog-strangling’ moniker, they're actually a threat to Monarch butterflies.
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In the midst of pelting rain, which half-blinded him, swinging from side to side like a rapid and erratic pendulum, his torn hands paining him severely and his lungs panting from his exertions and panting from the very air which the wind sometimes blew into his mouth with strangling force, he finally arrived at the empty car.
The Banks of the Sacramento
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Sometimes, I felt like strangling him to death.
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No," said Julia after a pause, the word strangling her.
The Story of Julia Page
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In the interests of standardization and parity, many programs have been flattened out into a series of bureaucratized educational modules, strangling the creativity of both teachers and students.
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Hunter carved a hideous noughts and crosses pattern on Heidi's naked bottom after strangling her with a belt.
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She felt as if an invisible hand was upon her neck, strangling her with an iron grip.
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My mother swayed over to the door in her black leather shoes, straps strangling her white ankles and heels.
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If the “non-strangling” crib is more expensive, less easy to move about, less convenient to use, and in a location where the child is likely to be well-supervised, it is perfectly rational to choose the strangling model.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Richard Thaler Responds to Critics of Libertarian Paternalism
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The court declared the man guilty of strangling his sister to death with a telephone cord.
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The weed strangling your garden is known as bindweed.
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He knew all the ingredients that contributed to the strangling of his olfactory senses.
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The current monetary policy is strangling the economy.
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There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars – strangling a leftwing novelist in her Camden flat, and then coming back for me.
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