Sentence examples for strangled down from inspiring English sources

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By 1974, the mighty sports car had been strangled down to 250 horsepower by emissions laws.

England 8-1 (c Watlingtling b Boult 4) Alastair Cook is strangled down the leg side.

BR Alastair Cook's first Test wicket plus accompanying just-won-the-World-Cup celebrations after having Ishant Sharma strangled down the leg side in a dead match.

Dravid is strangled down the leg-side as he tries to work Anderson fine, only for Jones to take another excellent catch tumbling away to his left.

It looked that way when Lewis and Anderson reduced Australia from 26-0 to 48-4, but Michael Clarke played pleasantly for 36 and, when he was strangled down the leg side by Lewis, Hussey started to squeeze the life out of England.

Alex Barrow could be forgiven being strangled down the leg side by a rusty Steve Harmison, for 25, but Jos Buttler was culpable in attempting a flashing cut off Blackwell before he had scored and edging to the wicketkeeper, Phil Mustard.

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A quality of strangled desire is boiled down to the longing to "put a hand on the shoulder of a woman whose back reminds us of a long-lost friend".

In a game they needed to win to keep their slim Four Nations hopes alive, when even a draw would have been enough after Scotland's miracle against New Zealand in Cumbria, the hosts were strangled, suffocated and ground down.

With his arm wrapped firmly around her neck, he held her down and strangled her until she was woozy and unable to call for help.

Central London's club culture has been strangled, neutered and held down by the powers of the city, to the point where there is nowhere decent left open putting pressure on these places to be better.

This was a darkness so complete that it toyed with the senses, a darkness that pressed with its own great density, smothering, strangling, crushing, pushing down with an unfathomable intolerable weight.

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