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How to use the word strangled in a Sentence?

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The truth is he killed her because he was a domestic abuser, he strangled her and had done so before.The fact was suggested about their fight on Aug. 12 inMoab.

Jason Jensen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know that he couldn't contain his behavior, even in a public place like a restaurant, when we shortly thereafter find her strangled to death, it does suggest a kind of intimate type of homicide, domestic abuse, type of homicide between a couple -- and therefore certainly makes Brian Laundrie the main suspect.

Ziv Cohen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So you the people can see for yourself how they strangled, literally, the life out of a human being.

Benjamin Crump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm just trying to follow it. And it's easier for me to not hold my nose and get strangled up with it really, but I'm trying to make it more nasal.

Mallory Smith

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Josh was brutally tortured, strangled over and over, set on fire after death. His last hours were brutal. None of our kids had a minute to say goodbye, we weren’t lucky enough to be separated for five days or 10 days. We are separated permanently.

One Angel mother

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

According to a preliminary [investigation] and statements from her parents, her brother strangled her.

Azhar Akram

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Her father Azeem informed the police that his son Waseem has strangled Qandeel, apparently, it is an honor killing but further investigations will reveal the real motives behind this murder.

Punjab Police spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazanfar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Her father Azeem informed the police that his son Waseem has strangled Qandeel, apparently, it is honor killing but further investigations would reveal the real motives behind this murder.

Punjab Police spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazanfar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

That the woman was strangled seems... quite certain.

Birgit Ahamer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He wasn't beaten or strangled ; these are repetitive bites all over his body, i can't imagine how else he would come to have so many puncture wounds.

Monica Rudiger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

Sir Barnett Cocks

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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