How to Use strangle in a Sentence

strangle

verb

• The weeds are strangling the plant.
• The company is trying to strangle the smaller competition.
• She had been raped and strangled, and her wrists were bound.
  — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2019
• He had been strangled, with a pack of Camel Lights stuffed in his mouth.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• 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
• She’d been strangled after being stabbed eight times in the face and back.
  — Madeline Roache, Time, 16 July 2019
• 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
• She’d been stripped naked and strangled with her own stockings, with a bite mark on her breast.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The mystery of who strangled the child has remained unsolved.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024