How to Use strangle in a Sentence

strangle

verb

• The weeds are strangling the plant.
• The company is trying to strangle the smaller competition.
• She had been raped and strangled.
  — Francie Ebert, NBC news, 25 Apr. 2026
• She was strangled and had her throat cut.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 29 Nov. 2025
• She had been raped, strangled and drowned.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
• Michael strangled me over and over again for six hours.
  — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
• And she was found strangled in her car, that was in her garage.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 14 June 2018
• She had been strangled with a wire, which was still around her neck.
  — Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
• He was then stabbed and strangled to death, Evans said.
  — Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
• Many have been caught and strangled by fishing nets and lines.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Edwards had been raped and strangled.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
• How, when the time came, she had been first strangled and then her head bashed in with a rock.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 17 May 2018
• She had been beaten about the face and neck and strangled, cops said at the time.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
• They’ve been strangled, hanged, stabbed, sliced and clobbered on the head.
  — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• His mother, Julie, had been strangled with a rope.
  — Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
• She’d been stripped naked and strangled with her own stockings, with a bite mark on her breast.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
• Three died from blunt force trauma, two were stabbed, two were strangled and one died in a fire.
  — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2020
• Hunters use wire snares set in the undergrowth to catch and strangle the deer.
  — John Wendle, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
• She’d been strangled after being stabbed eight times in the face and back.
  — Madeline Roache, Time, 16 July 2019
• He had been strangled, with a pack of Camel Lights stuffed in his mouth.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Has your heart been strangled by some kind of greed, or some kind of fear, or some kind of jealousy?
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
• The jeans should be trim through the hips and thighs, and skim your knees and calves without strangling them.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
• She was found in a nearby lake the next morning, raped, strangled and drowned.
  — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
• Tree experts found the root system strangled and starved.
  — Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
• Lee is accused of strangling Christa.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• Five days later, her body was found on a pile of garbage, with signs that she had been raped and strangled.
  — Shay Maunz, Glamour, 11 Jan. 2018
• She had been raped, strangled and drowned at a lake less than a mile from the convenience store.
  — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
• The man was strangling the boy from behind with such force that the boy’s eyes rolled back and his face turned pale.
  — Cindy Chang, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Miner was tied up, beaten, strangled and stabbed.
  — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
• A week into his stay, Masters was strangled to death in his room.
  — Lucas Manfield, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019