Sentence examples for be strangling from inspiring English sources
verb
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
She could be strangling that baby.
The chief I.E.A. economist, Fatih Birol, warned that high oil prices "might be strangling the economic recovery".
This exhibition features one of its most haunting stars, whose obsession with death is apparent here in images of electric chairs, a self-portrait next to a skull and another in which he seems to be strangling himself.
He is far more interested in Desnos and Éluard, and yet he always ends up coming back to Rosey's poems and looking at his photo, a studio portrait, in which he has the air of a solitary, wretched soul, with large, glassy eyes and a dark tie that seems to be strangling him.
Anna has many similar stories to tell about the time she spent in Moscow photographing the children who'll be strangling the British economy with arctic oil in a few years time.
The costumes, lighting, and quirky stage business -- a group of clerks, for example, who seem to be strangling their own hands, or the crowd at the fortune-teller's den who writhe on the ground like possessed demons -- that accompany each scene might be puzzling if one thought about them.
He likes to be strangled by whip!
Bird appearing to be strangled by a balloon string.
They refuse to be strangled by the GOP. .
Ceaseless migration is strangling it.
