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

He looked as if he were being slowly electrocuted.

From New York Times

The boys, whose families were from Mauritania and Tunisia, were electrocuted while hiding in a transformer at a power substation.

From Washington Post

"I was electrocuted again and again and again with a Taser," said Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered both a heart attack and a traumatic brain injury from the attack.

From Salon

Scott Nye – who was nicknamed “Sunshine” by his friends, according to the Salt Lake Tribune – was electrocuted after he climbed a power line tower in Farmington.

From Seattle Times