Japanese stranglehold

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noun

a wrestling hold in which an opponent's wrists are pulled to cross his arms in front of his own neck and exert pressure on his windpipe

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How to use Japanese stranglehold in a sentence

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This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
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Undesirable inhabitants of the country are being sent away, especially the Japanese, who are more dangerous than the Chinese.
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Among the Japanese who are in the islands there are more than one thousand five hundred Christians.
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I think that there has been neglect and laxity in the matter of not driving out the Japanese.
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Likewise a large part of the Japanese have been expelled, so that for a long time there have not been so few of them here as now.
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