Sentence examples for be asphyxiated from inspiring English sources
verb
To smother or suffocate someone.
Fall in love, or be asphyxiated".
The canary may even be asphyxiated in the coal mine.
The revamp loses some of the dynamism and distinctiveness of the old, but it's preferable not to be asphyxiated and run over.
The workers who call themselves "sewer rats" can be asphyxiated or choke on toxic fumes; people routinely pour poisons into the sewer system for illegal but convenient disposal.
"I must tell you," he wrote in 1918, "that if I have to live much longer in Barcelona I will be asphyxiated by its atmosphere".
Professor Haldane, however, objected to it on the grounds that the wearer would be asphyxiated by his own exhaled carbon dioxide, a fear that was disproved by the scientists running around the school buildings wearing the helmet.
Other sectors are asphyxiated.
She had been asphyxiated.
She had been asphyxiated with adhesive tape, probably in January.
