How to Use asphyxiation in a Sentence

asphyxiation

noun

• Archaeologists believed that the vast majority of the victims died of asphyxiation, choking to death on the thick clouds of noxious gas and ash.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
• Dakota died from mechanical asphyxia, a kind of asphyxiation in which an object or physical force stops a person from breathing.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2024
• Johnson died of asphyxiation in the Tarrant County jail on April 21.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2024
• The cause of death was ruled blunt force trauma and asphyxiation due to an avalanche.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Duggan died of asphyxiation and her body was found in the trunk of a car in a Burbank parking lot.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2022
• One of the two cases led to the tragic asphyxiation death of a 10-month-old infant.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
• But the coroner ruled his death was from asphyxiation due to the neck restraint.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• There was also bleeding in the white part of the eye, which can sometimes be present in cases of asphyxiation.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 12 June 2020
• Of those killed in avalanches in the U.S., Greene said 25% die from trauma and nearly 75% die from asphyxiation.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The child's death was ruled a homicide caused by asphyxiation.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
• Most living things within the radius of the blast will die of asphyxiation.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
• In one incident, a 10-month-old became caught in the strap and died from asphyxiation.
  — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The vast majority of the victims died of asphyxiation, choking to death on the thick clouds of noxious gas and ash.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2020
• As for the 52 percent of car seat deaths that weren’t caused by positional asphyxiation: Those were caused by the straps.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
• Baker has not ruled asphyxiation as a cause of Floyd’s death.
  — Amy Forliti, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2021
• An autopsy revealed she had been raped and the cause of death was asphyxiation, the statement said.
  — Mallika Kallingal, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• McClendon died of asphyxiation from having a white cloth stuffed down her throat and held in place by a T-shirt tied around her head.
  — Mike Hendricks, kansascity, 22 Sep. 2017
• Alexis Crawford was found dead in a park and died of asphyxiation.
  — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2019
• Para state prison officials said some inmates died of asphyxiation and the death count could rise.
  — Fox News, 30 July 2019
• Before the approval of the first drugs, 30 percent of HAE patients died of asphyxiation.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The cause of death was traumatic asphyxiation, the county coroner told the AP.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
• That allows someone to breathe better and lessen the chance of asphyxiation.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
• Sarin has no smell or taste, and causes death through asphyxiation.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Apr. 2018
• Floyd, 46, had none of the telltale signs of asphyxiation and had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, Nelson said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• The paint was claimed, fictionally, to have caused the beauty’s death by skin asphyxiation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• At least three of the four died of asphyxiation from strangulation; a fourth appeared to have drowned but had a ligature mark on her neck.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
• The cause of death was ruled as asphyxiation and exposure, police said.
  — Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• The cause of death was traumatic asphyxiation caused by compression from the substantial weight of the dirt.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 17 Jan. 2021
• By far, the most common method of suicide was a gun, followed by hanging or asphyxiation.
  — Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2021
• But it is widely believed the babies died from asphyxiation caused by the 30-degree incline of the product.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024