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How to use strangling in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word strangling? Here are some examples.

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I should be happy, but I'm so overwhelmed by shame, confusion and fear that they are strangling the feelings of love I have for him.
My mother swayed over to the door in her black leather shoes, straps strangling her white ankles and heels.
She looks down, the tight dress suddenly strangling her like a boa constrictor, keeping her from taking a deep breath.
I wont say this is a caricature but the emotions and oversensitiveness are strangling our own heroes.
He's possessed by such a strangling, medically induced paranoia that he's convinced of the belief that even his own ideas have been stolen.
Dinner was a great success despite me nearly strangling my BIL for phoning up to tell me how to cook the sprouts properly!
The girl who lapsed into a fit, repeatedly called on a woman by name to come and appease the ghosts she said were strangling her.
He knew all the ingredients that contributed to the strangling of his olfactory senses.
The court declared the man guilty of strangling his sister to death with a telephone cord.
It took all my will power to keep myself from strangling that person to death.
Dougal thrust Gino backward into the wall, his fingers tight around his neck, literally strangling him.
Tatsuya brought his face closer, grabbing Tomoya's neck, strangling him slightly.
She felt as if an invisible hand was upon her neck, strangling her with an iron grip.
Then, in some unexplained way, the sprocket chain tore loose and managed to wrap itself about the boy's neck, strangling him.
Sara wrapped her legs around Dallas's waist and held on to his neck almost strangling him.
I had to severely restrain myself from strangling her right there and then.
It took all of Emerald's self control to prevent herself from strangling the annoyance.
Her voice had shaken badly and more than once, he had caught the sound of her strangling a sob.
When we worry we are strangling the very hope and faith of our future and the achieving of our goals in Christ.
I have firm proposals to reduce the bureaucracy which is strangling farming.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The language was rich in glottal stops, clicks and guttural strangling sounds.
By strangling competition, monopolistic activity prevents or deters investment in new or expanded production facilities.
The duke intended to disembarrass himself of his victims that very night by strangling them in a secluded part of the palace.
His throat was tight and strangling with the reeking putrescence in the air.
We endured the strangling thrust of acceleration, and then the weightlessness of just coasting on our built-up velocity.
Once or twice it made wry faces at swallowing a mouthful of water, and choked a spluttered as if on the point of strangling.
He fell into the sea and went under, gulping a mouthful of salt water into his lungs, and came up strangling but swimming.
He was drenched in an instant, strangling and gasping for breath.
As it was, he was already thirty yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when we reached the brow of the slope.
Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it.
To see some of their faces you'd have thought they were afraid I'd go about at night strangling people.
He had long been a lordling over the other trout and now was strangling!
After the adulterer ran away, the man tried to strangle his wife with his hands before picking up a piece of cloth and strangling her again until she died.
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