How to Use electrocute in a Sentence

electrocute

verb

• Tasers them, electrocutes them, kicks them in the face, throws them across the room.
  — Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 3 Oct. 2018
• Remain in the water, and a live wire will electrocute you.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2021
• Or maybe the light switch to electrocute you with, to keep the right analogy going.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• She might get tangled up in the wires and electrocute herself.
  — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 28 Apr. 2020
• The young men jumped in to rescue the dog but were electrocuted after trying to get out.
  — Nick Sestanovich, The Mercury News, 23 June 2019
• If someone were to get electrocuted or worse —-I can’t have that on my head man.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 2 June 2018
• Priests would even use cattle prongs to electrocute the children.
  — Brandi Morin, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
• The kids had pointy heads, and everybody looked as if they’d been electrocuted.
  — John Ortved, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The state, one of eight that still electrocute inmates, has yet to assemble a firing squad.
  — Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune, 6 June 2021
• Set them up to walk into a puddle, then electrocute them by flipping a light switch? Try.
  — Ebenezer Samuel, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
• Some died of hypothermia, burned to death while huddling near a hot plate for warmth, or were electrocuted by the third rail.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• They can be electrocuted, drown, set themselves on fire with a faulty stove or fireplace, or freeze to death.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• The police suspect the bird may have been electrocuted because its claws had burn marks on them.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• But the first horrific tragedy was Jack Jr., who was only 5 and a half years old and was electrocuted in a trailer park.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
• The end came as the result of a vicious left hook to the body that seemed to electrocute Fortea, forcing him to take a knee and surrender to the referee's ten count.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• While working as a lineman two years ago, James was electrocuted and lost half his face.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• James had lost half his face and his left eye when he was electrocuted on the job as an electrical lineman in June 2021.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• Tens of thousands of civets were drowned or electrocuted.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• So when all the actors jumped in, they were slightly electrocuted.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• There were wires from the telephone pole, electrocuting.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• And at the end of their short lives, the animals are either anally electrocuted, gassed, or beaten to death.
  — Pj Smith, refinery29.com, 7 May 2020
• While cleaning the kitchen on Sunday, the two teenagers were electrocuted by a loose cable, the New York Times reported.
  — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
• In Atlanta, a man was electrocuted by a downed power line.
  — Brook Silva-Braga, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2017
• The standard algorithm saw birds perched on a tree branch, Norman saw a man electrocuted to death.
  — Joi Ito, WIRED, 9 May 2018
• The man had been electrocuted and suffered burns, according to the statement.
  — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
• The two boys entered a power substation to hide from police in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, and were electrocuted.
  — Time, 29 June 2023
• During the war in Cyprus in 1974, mothers told daughters how to electrocute themselves if Turkish soldiers approached, to avert the pain and shame of rape.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• From that electrocution, the dog's owner heard and came running out to try and save the dog and sadly got electrocuted as well.
  — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
• The eels leapt and electrocuted the approaching rod and plate, and both the voltage and the magnitude of current rose as the eels ascended higher.
  — National Geographic, 6 June 2016
• At 26, Zack Freeling had already endured the suicides of his father and brother, and then the loss of his mother to cancer, when his mentor was fatally electrocuted.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024