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Sentence Examples
| When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted. |
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| It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs. |
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| The garroted gossipmonger had included several cryptic acknowledgments in her manuscript that tantalize the wily wordsmith. |
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| The call of a ruttish bull elk sounds like a bugler being garroted in midblow. |
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| It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted. |
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| One spring night in 1874, while sleeping at a camp at Little Dry Creek, he was murdered — garroted with a piece of wire. |
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| If someone else had garroted him, why would he need the spoon? |
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| A woman had been found dead in Chicago, garroted with a copper wire and left in a barnyard, and the simpleminded farmer's son who had discovered her body stood accused. |
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| He was garroted with a bootlace, yet he always wore slip-on shoes. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Him they carried to the town-council who returned him to the tribunal and garroted the coachman. |
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| The chevalier was thus overpowered, garroted and captured in less time than it has taken to write these words. |
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| On returning that evening from the theatre he is garroted and robbed of all he has with him. |
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| Most of them was garroted, and a few was condemned to work on the roads for life. |
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| Before he was garroted, Atahualpa begged that his remains might be preserved at Quito with those of his mother's people. |
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| Art, now in its very birth in his heart and life, was to be garroted. |
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| I did make threats, but I was not threatening that I was the one who would have him garroted,'' he said. |
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| A pensioner has been found garroted in his bed after travelling to Pakistan for a reconciliation with his estranged wife. |
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| He was garroted at Havana, being refused the honorable death of a soldier. |
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| It was Halpin Frayser's impression that he was to be garroted on his native heath. |
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