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
• Does that mean the Wildcats have a stranglehold on the Pac-12 Player of the Year race, too?
  — Tyson Alger, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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
• What’s your take on the stranglehold that IP has on the business right now?
  — Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The Red Sox had a stranglehold on first place for 188 days this season.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
• 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
• As of this week, the Christian Democrats are down to 34 percent, and the stranglehold on Bavaria has been loosened.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 27 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Despite the setback, the Nazis maintain their stranglehold on the world.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 13 June 2017
• Harden has had a stranglehold on this award for months.
  — The Crossover Staff, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Sometime around when 50 Cent had a stranglehold on the game and Kanye kinda took off, and then Lil Wayne jumped in there.
  — Andreas Hale, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2018
• Part of the answer lies in football’s stranglehold on our TV screens.
  — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• For decades, Gillette had what looked like a stranglehold on the razor market.
  — Morgan Housel, Fortune, 23 June 2017
• 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 Americans needed to hold off Italy to put a stranglehold on bronze and Rippon got the job done.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY Sports, 12 Feb. 2018
• There’s no indication the Dodgers will let go of their stranglehold on the NL West race.
  — SI.com, 15 July 2017
• 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
• Then came another green light, this one from a British pop star with a stranglehold on the cultural zeitgeist.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2024
• By next August, Mehta is expected to decide which of the possible remedies Google will be required to carry out to loosen its stranglehold on the search market.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025