How to Use strangle in a Sentence

strangle

verb
Definition of stranglenext
Synonyms for stranglenext
  • The weeds are strangling the plant.
  • The company is trying to strangle the smaller competition.
  • Baloch, aged 26, was found strangled in her home near the city of Multan.
    — Asim Tanveer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Ruiz got in the car and was strangled to death, according to the report.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
  • Robinson was charged in 2021 in the death of Nahla Miller, who was beaten and strangled.
    — Sarah Dewberry, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This will keep the tree from girdling, or strangling itself.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The now 52-year-old used a rope to strangle the woman then used a kitchen knife to cut the fetus from her womb.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The now 52-year-old used a rope to strangle the woman, then used a kitchen knife to cut the fetus from her womb.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The four victims, all of whom had been raped and strangled, were between 14 and 29 years old.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In the episode — the third of Season 35 — Homer jokes that all of those years strangling Bart have paid off with a firm handshake.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The world would not be free, as the credo of the day advised, until the last king was strangled with the intestines of the last priest.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Three died from blunt force trauma, two were stabbed, two were strangled and one died in a fire.
    — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The first is to keep the aid flowing into Ukraine, so that Mr. Putin cannot wait out the West and strangle the country.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In 2017, staff watched as a man tore up his shirt, then tied the strips from his shirt around his neck and tried to strangle himself.
    — oregonlive, 27 June 2020
  • The mother of a 4-year-old girl who was beaten and strangled to death has been sentenced to life in prison.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
  • One of the sons had admitted to strangling Kirk twice before.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
  • A week into his stay, Masters was strangled to death in his room.
    — Lucas Manfield, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Diana moved back in with her parents and did not tell them that Jones had tried to strangle her.
    — Michelle Miller, CBS News, 6 May 2023
  • The goat was later found strangled in Irving’s fire pit.
    — Brittany Harry, Cincinnati.com, 11 Mar. 2020
  • At one school, she was once slapped and strangled in front of other students.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In January, 1996, the boy was strangled, and his body was dissolved in acid.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Little started to strangle the woman on a ledge about five feet off the ground.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Neal was found strangled to death in her North Myrtle Beach condo in 1996.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The rope used to strangle and kill her was still around her neck, and police say her footprints were on the inside of the windshield.
    — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
  • She had been strangled elsewhere and her jaw and teeth broken, court records show.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Her body was found stuffed in a closet after she was strangled, court records show.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Lily works as a clown—this is Lorrie Moore, after all—and once tried to strangle herself with the laces of her clown shoes.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Jennifer was covered in cuts, bite marks, and bruises, and she had been strangled to death.
    — Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2019
  • She had been strangled, police said, and also died from blunt force trauma.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The recording then appears to capture Lengyel strangling Herrmann to death.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 Oct. 2024

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