How to Use strangle in a Sentence

strangle

verb
Definition of stranglenext
Synonyms for stranglenext
  • The weeds are strangling the plant.
  • The company is trying to strangle the smaller competition.
  • Robinson was charged in 2021 in the death of Nahla Miller, who was beaten and strangled.
    — Sarah Dewberry, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of the sons had admitted to strangling Kirk twice before.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • At one school, she was once slapped and strangled in front of other students.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Little started to strangle the woman on a ledge about five feet off the ground.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The rope used to strangle and kill her was still around her neck, and police say her footprints were on the inside of the windshield.
    — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
  • Her body was found stuffed in a closet after she was strangled, court records show.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Lily works as a clown—this is Lorrie Moore, after all—and once tried to strangle herself with the laces of her clown shoes.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • In the last 50 years, hundreds of children in the United States have gotten the cords looped around their necks, strangling themselves to death.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Over time, circling roots can begin to strangle the tree’s trunk.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • The autopsy never said Tom was strangled; there weren't any marks on his neck.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The victim in that case said Billingsley displayed a knife and strangled her during the attack, court records show.
    — Brian Witte, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Russian troops were pushing from both sides to try to strangle the city’s supply lines.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Caldwell said Cross then hit Currin in the head with a metal tool and strangled her with his black, braided belt.
    — Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • She was found strangled to death with an electrical cord and with signs she had been beaten.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Christie Neely was strangled in New Jersey in 2007, according to news accounts at the time.
    — Jake Offenhartz and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • Emerson seems all but strangled to death by his beloved nature, and interred as food.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Police say Quinones, 27, began to strangle the woman with a shoelace.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • During a search of the men’s apartment, police found several cords that could have been used to strangle Jorge.
    — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Just weeks into the school year in October, the teen grabbed a girl from the hallway, pulled her into a classroom, then groped and strangled her.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Police determined she had been raped before the killer used a piece of her own clothing to strangle her.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Dan agreed, and allowed Ron to strangle him with a towel through the bars separating their cells.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • When Ellroy was ten, his mother was strangled to death; her body was dumped, her killer never found.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • An autopsy revealed that Joy had not died in the fire, but had been stabbed numerous times and strangled.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024

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