How to Use stranglehold in a Sentence

stranglehold

noun

• 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
• 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
• No other browser has ever had as much of a stranglehold on the web before or since.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 20 May 2021
• But the streamer no longer has the same stranglehold on the industry’s output, in part because the latter has grown considerably in that time.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• In any case, none of these people or their affairs have as much of a stranglehold over us as the longing for reconciliation between Pen and Eloise.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024