Sentence examples for started to strangle from inspiring English sources

As a death-row prisoner who broke out of his hole and started to strangle another convict, he gave the film a sudden charge that the moviemakers didn't seem to know what to do with.

According to the police report, Mr. Sheen "started to strangle Mueller then he pulled out a knife he always carries on his person and held the knife to Mueller's neck and threatened, 'You better be in fear.

Like him she is confined by a part that is starting to strangle her, never mind that she has created it herself.

His tumor, the size of a baseball, was already starting to strangle the portal vein going into the liver.

He stares, he doesn't blink, and then he starts to strangle me.

The doppelganger starts to strangle Nina, who then grabs a shard of glass and stabs her rival in the stomach, apparently killing her.

But much like the air in a balloon has to go somewhere when you squeeze one end, authority has a habit of simply flowing elsewhere once you start to strangle traditional sources of it.

On our way home, however, the Benz started to choke, jumping up and down, like something was strangling it – the heat, our weight.

They looked solemn, and brave, as throughout the theater a chorus of strangled sobs started to rise from the audience.

People started to attack Marroushi and her colleague, "and one woman was basically strangling me with her scarf".

The result is a slow strangling of the firms that had started to think rationally about costs, customers and competitors.