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
• The pretty girl killed by a boyfriend, the C.E.O. shot on the street, the subway dancer strangled by the ex-marine.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
• 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
• But just as Jamie was about to strangle Beth to death, Rip arrived and saved her.
  — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
• At that crime scene, Dex notices the victim was strangled from the front.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Only 16, her life thrown away, strangled, wrapped in a rug, and buried in cement.
  — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 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
• She was bludgeoned and strangled to death in the basement of her family's Boulder home in 1996.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• But experts wonder if the next phase will be a new dawn for a people strangled by a brutal autocracy – or whether sectarianism will bring a different type of authoritarian rule.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025