761 examples of strangling in sentences

I'm strangling to death, I tell yuh.

Lanyard entertained for a moment a vivid imaginary picture of the scene in the saloon when Phinuit had surprised the Apache in the act of strangling Monk; a picture that Phinuit subsequently confirmed substantially in every detail....

He called it "The Strangling of Persia.

Starving, or strangling, stabbing, smothering? Queen.

Death, when inflicted, was by hanging, scourging, and beheading; also by strangling in prison.

His works were not so numerous as they were perfect in their way, in some of which, as in the Infant Hercules strangling the Serpent, he displayed great dramatic power.

As follows: Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder.

And strangling a passionate sob, the lawyer sank again into his chair, covering his face.

When they regained their feet, Peelo had shifted his grip so that one arm was passed under her chin, the wrist pressing into her throat and strangling her.

Colin's body slipped every minute and had to be jerked up again; and when it slipped his arms tightened round Jerrold's neck, strangling him.

The nobles must have, at heart, disliked his allies; but they cheered him in the Senate, and he succeeded in practically strangling the commission by procuring the transfer of its jurisdiction to the consuls.

The picture that he put on a board represented a boy strangling two serpents and a lion pursuing a fawn.

The sultan got interested in these tales, and revoked the cruel determination he had made of strangling at daybreak the wife he had married the preceeding night.

For days she would tie her kerchief over her ears and eyes, and crouch in a corner, strangling her impulses.

When I say, "My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;" Then thou frightest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions: So that I myself choose strangling, And death rather than my pains.

Anna had it on her lips to cry, when the whole sunward side of the Brooklyn, and then of the Hartford, vomited fire, iron and blinding, strangling smoke into the water-battery and the fort, where the light air held it.

7; Irene, acts, i. 196-8; suggests the strangling scene in it, 197, n. 2; travels with him to London, i. 101; looked upon him as his property, iii.

It made desperate efforts to shake off the strangling lethargy.

Sometimes this passion breaks out nevertheless, leading to bloody quarrels; but the main point is that systematic efforts are made to suppress jealousy: "No jealous feeling is allowed to be shown during this time under penalty of strangling."

Girls who had been betrothed as infants were carefully guarded, and adultery savagely punished by clubbing or strangling; but, as I made clear in the chapter on jealousy, such vindictive punishment does not indicate a regard for chastity, but is merely revenge for infringement on property rights.

Dan stooped to the tool-chest for a reserve supply when a strangling cough made him spring to his feet and hurriedly lift the blanket.

"Now watch out for the" The strangling cough broke and a horrible something"It's the membrane!

Her heart beat so that it seemed a live creature strangling and silencing her.

No one saw the dog, and if his occasional rattling, strangling howl reached any ears, they were dead to its meaning.

The Peace Conferees, meeting in Versailles, heeded Lloyd George's warning of March, 1919, and turned their attention to the urgent task of strangling socialism.

761 examples of  strangling  in sentences