Example Sentences

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She rose heavily, as white as a narcissus flower, winding back her hair from her quivering face, and struggling to repress the tearless sobs that still caught stranglingly at her breath.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

His heart rose stranglingly and then contracted; his hand closed on the knob, turned it and the door opened.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

What possible escape was there from the tragic net he had wrapped stranglingly around himself?

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Sarah had choked, apparently upon a crumb of bread, and was coughing, stranglingly.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry

But he succeeded in speaking, though the words caught, stranglingly, in his throat: "W-what do you—want?"

From Square Deal Sanderson by Seltzer, Charles Alden