How to Use stranglehold in a Sentence

stranglehold

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  • At the time, OPEC had a stranglehold on the world's supply of crude.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
  • It’s called a GPU, and Nvidia has a stranglehold on the market.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Suits‘ three-month stranglehold on the top of the Nielsen streaming charts has come to an end.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • By the 2010s, the NRA was losing its stranglehold on the gun lobby.
    — Rachel Monroe, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • Motown held a stranglehold on the soul music of the 1960s.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The Huskies had a stranglehold on the rivalry and an amused contempt for the Ducks.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
  • But that didn’t stop them from helping the team grasp a stranglehold early in the game.
    — Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The Panthers had a 3-0 stranglehold in the best-of-7 series.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 June 2024
  • Jodeci had a stranglehold on the R&B scene in the early ’90s, and one of the places that showed them tremendous amounts of love was the Big Apple.
    — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2022
  • As the race drew to a close, Allmendinger continued his stranglehold on the field.
    — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2022
  • Why not? — Potter is the miserly ogre with a stranglehold on the town of Bedford Falls.
    — John Hirschauer, National Review, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Harden has had a stranglehold on this award for months.
    — The Crossover Staff, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Sometime around when 50 Cent had a stranglehold on the game and Kanye kinda took off, and then Lil Wayne jumped in there.
    — Andreas Hale, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Part of the answer lies in football’s stranglehold on our TV screens.
    — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Martin seemed to grab a stranglehold of the game, leading 75-65 with about three minutes to play.
    — Robert Thomas, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But no one on tour can apply a stranglehold quite like Djokovic.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Grant scored 21 points in the third quarter, helping Detroit take a stranglehold on the game.
    — Rahat Huq, Chron, 11 Nov. 2021
  • For the moment, the Houthis are showing no signs of relaxing their stranglehold on the Red Sea.
    — Aaron Glasserman, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2024
  • The reason to get a Kobo is to escape Amazon's stranglehold on e-books.
    — Louryn Strampe, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The winner has a stranglehold on the SEC East and will be the top seed in the playoff rankings for the foreseeable future.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Anderson is a product of Stanford which has had the stranglehold on the top spot.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2022
  • The Ravens seemed to have a stranglehold on the game when Jackson had a third-down sneak to the Baltimore 46 for an apparent first down.
    — Tom Canavan, ajc, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The Stars appeared to be past their losing streak Thursday night, with a two-goal third-period lead and a stranglehold on the flow of the game.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But the Eagles’ first drive of the second half was a virtual stranglehold.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Only a writer the caliber of Murray could break the East Coast stranglehold.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Curry will need all of his confidence against the Rockets in Game 4 to give the Warriors a 3-1 stranglehold on the series.
    — Nihal Kolur, SI.com, 21 May 2018
  • The States are the reigning gold medalists in the relatively new format and looked to have a stranglehold on the game early.
    — NBC News, 30 July 2024
  • The state needs to end its stranglehold on resources that could be better distributed at the local level.
    — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Politicians have been wrested from the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry and big ag.
    — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024

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