strangled
IPA: strˈæŋgʌɫd
adjective
- held in check with difficulty
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Examples of "strangled" in Sentences
- He was strangled to death with a bowstring.
- Reilly strangled the foreman and completed the theft.
- She was strangled, which is Asselta's favorite method of execution.
- This time, I uttered what could only be described as a strangled gasp of panic.
- "Well," he said in the kind of strangled voice he used when he was busy stepping on his rage.
- The phrase strangled in her throat and the world shuddered into something slow and eerily focused:
- The general opinion among the jockeys was that Sandy had 'strangled' a couple at one stage, but not during the past few months.
- I make some kind of strangled chuckle, as if this is just what professors DO not the grab ass part...more the odd twitching and eccentric behavior.
- The same old mantra of no taxes/no regulation otherwise the economy will be "strangled" - is still offered by almost all the players as the only route.
- Through Miss Maitland's transom were coming certain strangled and irregular sounds, now falsetto, now deep bass, that showed that worthy lady to be asleep.
- Joan, who had gone into the bungalow, tossed down a strip of white calico, in which old Telepasse was promptly wrapped, and he stood forth, resplendent and purified, withal he still spat and strangled from the soap-suds with which Noa Noah had gargled his throat.
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