electrocute

Example Sentences

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While being electrocuted by 630 volts, Tegan was "saved from death" by her £40 rubber boots and the man who reached off the platform to pull her to safety.

From BBC

Expect lots of cartoonish violence with an edge: Most of the orc characters are big, scary and mean; Battle Kitty gets electrocuted in a pool, and characters are trampled.

From Washington Post

The couple was electrocuted in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to Stalin’s Russia.

From Washington Post

But birds are not electrocuted, because they are not touching the ground, so the electricity stays in the power line.

From BBC

At least 25 people have died after they were electrocuted by a falling power cable at a market in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police say.

From BBC