Sentence examples for strangled sounds from inspiring English sources

The lady went up to a programme seller and said: 'Isn't there a rather curious smell in this theatre?' And the programme seller replied: 'It's the play, madam.' But what did the poor actor who was lashed to the pillar say to you? RR : Well, of course, when I asked him for a programme all I got were these strangled sounds.

They're turning to face us, and making pidgin efforts to communicate with strangled sounds and cryptic markings and waving like a Sims character who wants, no, needs something from us.

Playing the notoriously intractable valveless trumpet (and, for that matter, many another period instrument) is inevitably an inexact art, but the strangled sounds here went beyond the mere inexactitude of, for instance, some of the string and woodwind intonation.

He laughs, but a strangled sound comes out.

In a Manhattan restaurant, ingesting a red hot cayenne sauce that caused flaming face, weeping eyes and strangled choking sounds seconds before my host introduced me to Leonardo DiCaprio.

The potential downside is that turbo engines – they of the lagging throttle response, low redline and often strangled, uninspired sound – seem antithetical to the Ferrari ethos, which mandates fast-twitch throttles and heavenly rev peaks of 9,000rpm, accompanied by a Shangri-La soundtrack of cylinders urged into motion by a flat crankshaft.

When he extends his thumb and pinky finger out in a shaka sign (presumably taught to him by that little-known Aboriginal tribe, the Hawaiians), and makes a sort-of cat-strangling sound, he can make animals go to sleep.

"I've got the type that makes your voice sound breathy rather than sound strangled and sometimes I have to put in a lot of effort in to speak". For the film, Lupita says she met people with the condition and worked with a voice therapist - to make sure she didn't damage her vocal cords.

My stomach sounds strangled.

It was the message so many Somalis have longed to hear, but which have often sounded strangled from Western capitals, with their the generosity bound by security caveats.

As she ran to him, Dr. Whitman, his face ashen and contorted with anguish, called to her in a voice that sounded strangled.