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
But Saddam's belligerence has only driven his foes to tighten their garrote around Iraq.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pantaloons fall easily and naturally over legs that have known unlimited freedom and bagginess, and even garrote collars meet correctly around sun-tanned throats.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
