Asphyxiated is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Asphyxiated meaning
simple past and past participle of asphyxiate
Synonyms of Asphyxiated
Using Asphyxiated
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of asphyxiate
- Useful related words include: physiological state, physiological condition.
- In the example corpus, asphyxiated often appears in combinations such as: be asphyxiated, asphyxiated by, asphyxiated before.
Context around Asphyxiated
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Asphyxiated
- In this selection, "asphyxiated" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nearly, probably, santorini, whatever, reptiles and nieto stand out and add context to how "asphyxiated" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activity is asphyxiated as gangs and economic institutions asphyxiated whatever initiatives. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "asphyxiated" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with asphyxiated
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rogers had vomited into the spit guard and asphyxiated. (9 words)
Some prisoners “burned to death and others were asphyxiated,” Nieto said. (11 words)
Rather than being shot to death like Soviet Jews, would be asphyxiated. (12 words)
A 1994 incident in which a man was asphyxiated after entering an argon-filled section of oil pipe under construction in Alaska highlights the dangers of argon tank leakage in confined spaces, and emphasizes the need for proper use, storage and handling. (42 words)
Sitting just beneath the waves, this three-kilometre-long volcano made itself known in 1650 when an ear-splittingly loud eruption triggered a destructive tsunami and spewed so much suffocating volcanic gas that 70 people on or near Santorini asphyxiated. (40 words)
Call it a hunch, but we’d be willing to bet most people who are super into their bodies and prove it by noshing on disgusting kale don’t make a daily routine out of eating asphyxiated reptiles. (38 words)
Example sentences (14)
If the outflow is not properly regulated, the person will be asphyxiated by carbon dioxide.
Economic activity is “asphyxiated as gangs impose restrictions on people’s movements”, he said.
He said the fire started in the early morning hours, and that most of the children were probably asphyxiated before they could wake up.
Rather than being shot to death like Soviet Jews, would be asphyxiated.
Rogers had vomited into the spit guard and asphyxiated.
Sitting just beneath the waves, this three-kilometre-long volcano made itself known in 1650 when an ear-splittingly loud eruption triggered a destructive tsunami and spewed so much suffocating volcanic gas that 70 people on or near Santorini asphyxiated.
Spain and Ethiopia before the dawn of the 19th century were in the grip of absolutist control to the extent that the environment provided no incentives and the incipient economic institutions asphyxiated whatever initiatives that could thrive.
Call it a hunch, but we’d be willing to bet most people who are super into their bodies and prove it by noshing on disgusting kale don’t make a daily routine out of eating asphyxiated reptiles.
How Jones came across Abdi via Coralee Smith, the mother of Ashley Smith, who died in 2007, asphyxiated from a ligature tied around her neck as correctional officers watched.
Some prisoners “burned to death and others were asphyxiated,” Nieto said.
A 1994 incident in which a man was asphyxiated after entering an argon-filled section of oil pipe under construction in Alaska highlights the dangers of argon tank leakage in confined spaces, and emphasizes the need for proper use, storage and handling.
A gas leak in his home nearly asphyxiated Rube Foster in 1926, and his increasingly erratic behavior led to him being committed to an asylum a year later.
On May 26, Foster was nearly asphyxiated by a gas leak in Indianapolis. citation Though he recovered and returned to his team, his behavior grew erratic from then on.
Rand introduces him only for a few pages as a guest of Kip Chalmers ("for no reason that either of them could discover") to then implicitly have him asphyxiated in the Tunnel catastrophe, after giving some statements.
Common combinations with asphyxiated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- be asphyxiated 2×
- asphyxiated by 2×
- asphyxiated before 2×
- were asphyxiated 2×
- nearly asphyxiated 2×