strangulate

Example Sentences

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Early anecdotal reporting noted surprising drops in hospital admissions for common medical emergencies like cardiovascular events, appendicitis and strangulated hernias, and international data have begun to confirm these trends.

From Washington Post

Coke-Hamilton, asked whether such restrictions indicated the virus was having a ‘strangulating’ effect on the global supply chain, said: “In short, yes. It would seem so.”

From Reuters

But Eppler warned that such a blueprint can backfire in October, when prolific offenses often are strangulated by opponents with frontline pitching.

From Los Angeles Times

Hadn’t Britain triumphed by just being itself – by being the comically amateurish, strangulated and yet quietly heroic England of the conservative vision?

From The Guardian

Mr. Jallow described how his team “took plastic bags and they put them over their heads and they strangulated them.”

From New York Times