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On May 7, two were asphyxiated inside a septic tank in West Delhi’s Rohini. — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, "India’s most demeaning job killed over 100 people in two years, but is anyone bothered?," 28 June 2019 With the Liberal-National coalition government winning a second mandate and the central bank ready to cut rates, expectation is that Australia’s economy which has felt asphyxiated over the last nine months, could start breathing again. — James Glynn, WSJ, "Glynn’s Take: Australia’s Economy to Get Some Fresh Air," 23 May 2019 In this nightmare scenario, Mission Control would bid Armstrong and Aldrin farewell, then cut communication as the two prepared to asphyxiate. — Stephen Witt, WIRED, "Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control," 24 June 2019 And its toll continues: liberal rationalism is, in Gray’s view, an impoverished creed that has asphyxiated richer forms of life. — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, "Dialectics of Enlightenment," 9 May 2019 Many people exposed to the cloud of gas would be asphyxiated. — Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics, "How We'll Stop Chemical Attacks," 28 Apr. 2019 The two are famous for their transhuman looks, binding themselves in asphyxiating neck gear or waist-constricting corsets, and wearing $10,000 skin heels. — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, "Watch Fecal Matter’s Extreme, 3-Hour Beauty Routine in 7 Minutes," 28 Mar. 2019 They were all asphyxiated to death in various ways. — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, "BTK killer Dennis Rader tells all in unheard interview for doc: 'It's a demon that's within me'," 21 Aug. 2018 The young woman, Kennedy abandoned, slowly asphyxiated over a period of hours. — Fox News, "Ann Coulter on left's meltdown over Kavanaugh allegation; will Carter Page finally learn why the FBI spied on him?," 19 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'asphyxiate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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