Example Sentences

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International embargoes had strangled the economy, and tens of thousands of people were trying to emigrate to America.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2021

The jury had already been selected when the prosecutor announced that the pathologist who performed the autopsy of Erin Stanley had suddenly revealed he was no longer sure McFarland had strangled her.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2019

District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said that Qualcomm’s licensing practices had strangled competition in parts of the computer chip market, harming rivals, smartphone makers, and consumers.

From Reuters • May 31, 2019

In the preceding decades a thicket of protectionism had strangled commerce and slowed recovery from the Depression of the 1930s.

From Economist • Nov. 2, 2017

It was the general belief in Paisley that the devil had strangled him, lest he should have revealed in his last moments too many of the unholy secrets of witchcraft.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles