Example Sentences

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It has balanced the budget, improved government aid to the poor by removing political middlemen, and cut a tangle of red tape that was strangling business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

"I immediately started to free her from the net that was strangling her, but even after we got her untied, she was too tired to make her way back to the ocean," the model added.

From Fox News • Dec. 4, 2021

Their groundbreaking policies led to the reversal of a crime epidemic that was strangling the soul of New York City.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2018

Mayor Danny Jones of Charleston said the do-not-drink order was strangling businesses.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2014

Oh, absolutely nothing, except that I was strangling on bitterness and gall and was in no mood to talk about it.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly