Sentence examples for strangled from inspiring English sources

Detectives are baffled how five women, some of whom would certainly fight back, seemed to be so easily subdued before they were strangled.

The victim was Mrs Dora Smith, an 82-year-old widow, who was found strangled in her ground-floor flat in Blakelaw, Newcastle upon Tyne, on New Year's Day.

She had been raped, strangled and her jewellery had been stolen.

"She struggled, he sexually assaulted her and strangled her using the passenger belt in the car.

Deep down, he says, all 18 countries using the single currency wish that the idea had been strangled at birth but understand that once you are in you don't get out without a catastrophe.

A man who beat and strangled his mother, then fled with her bank cards to Spain where he killed a second woman in a random knife attack, has been jailed for life and will serve a minimum of 27 years and three months.

However, given that each of his constipated monologues essentially involved him repeating the word "idiot" over and over again until his colon gained sentience and strangled him unconscious, it's fair to say that it wasn't exactly an unqualified success.

The rich economies of the north are dragging their feet over coming to the aid of southern countries financially strangled by public debt and suffering severe austerity cures".

Scottish Football League secretary Peter Donald has admitted that the murky recent past of Airdrieoneans was the major reason why would-be replacement Airdrie United was strangled at birth by rival chairmen.

On a rainy Halloween night in 1994, someone strangled 29-year-old Renee Rondeau to death in her apartment after she returned from an exercise class.

Like Irvine Welsh and others in the 'dirty realism' vanguard, he has helped reclaim a culture that had been strangled by tartan and haggis.