garrote
Example Sentences
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Outside, I take in the scene: street preachers denouncing Gnosticism, a lone banker trying to garrote himself with ticket tape, and the Bull – that gold, beautiful bull – running through the streets like Zeus.
From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2015
“Forgive me” was a favorite Wallace phrase, the caress before the garrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2012
It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Author Fleming is guilty of using the old school tie as a cultural garrote, it is, fittingly enough, his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
A farce of a trial was granted to me, not to see whether or not I was guilty, but simply to determine between the dungeon and the garrote.
From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood
