Sentence examples for strangulate from inspiring English sources

"We emphasize again that the United States must withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and strangulate us," the news agency quoted a spokesman for the National Defense Commission as saying.

The theory behind besieging a population is to annihilate temporal and spatial domains, and by so doing slowly strangulate a people's will.

If they did, heaven preserve us from the tangled emotions and power struggles that would begin to strangulate routine health care.

The writer's tone becomes completely strangulated with the responsibility of it all.

In places such as Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, independents also offer the only viable escape from strangulating one-party rule: inept though Labour's local representatives have often proved, voting for any other party is unthinkable for many of the towns' residents.

He gave confidence to young Britons that they didn't have to be strangulated, effete, simpering fops.

It imprisons you, it turns you into a bundle of jelly, it's going to kill you sooner or later, and in a very unpleasant way, because it almost certainly strangulates you or chokes you.

Producer Dave Stewart clearly feels that the best way for the celebrated melon-expeller to get that melon out is to emulate Betty Davis in 1974: make with the histrionic rock-funk-lite, all popping drums, strangulated guitars and anguished sass.

The hernia may be classified as reducible, irreducible, or strangulated.

Smith sang out strongly, choosing to bark rather than to use the mildly strangulated style he had been experimenting with.

But his absence is felt in this group effort, which squeezes its biggest laughs from its many squawking, strangulated vocalizations.