Get to know Strangling better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like choking or strangulation.
Strangling in a sentence
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Strangling meaning
present participle and gerund of strangle
Synonyms of Strangling
Using Strangling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of strangle
- Useful related words include: choking, strangulation, throttling, suffocation.
- In the example corpus, strangling often appears in combinations such as: and strangling, strangling her, of strangling.
Context around Strangling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Strangling
- In this selection, "strangling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, allegedly, collapsed, mimes, walkar, elaine and clair stand out and add context to how "strangling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accused of strangling and sexually and after allegedly strangling walkar may. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "strangling" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with strangling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A Fairbanks woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to strangling a child. (11 words)
The man groped her and began strangling her when she fought back. (12 words)
Danny Keysar was 16 months old when the portable crib he was inside collapsed, strangling him. (16 words)
After allegedly strangling Walkar May 18, Poonawala sawed her body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence before dumping them across the city over several days. (37 words)
Yet as we and other LPs have noted respectfully in our conversations with the regulators, the Canadian excise tax is strangling the economics of producers and as a result, not generating the sustainable tax dollars government expected. (37 words)
During the trial, the Western Australian Supreme Court heard how Duggan met his victim in a pub in Perth on the evening of May 5, 2004 and offered to walk her home before strangling her. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Fairbanks woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to strangling a child.
After allegedly strangling Walkar May 18, Poonawala sawed her body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence before dumping them across the city over several days.
After strangling Elaine, Pandilovski hid her in a basement storage room and took two photos of her lifeless body.
At 3.41am Herbert walked into the room of fellow patient Peter Knight who woke to find the defendant straddling him and strangling him.
A woman has been handed a suspended prison sentence after strangling another woman in her Burton Latimer home in a heated row over crisps.
Criminals use cars, knives, rope, clubs their own hands for strangling and punching and their feet for kicking and tripping their victims.
Danny Keysar was 16 months old when the portable crib he was inside collapsed, strangling him.
During the trial, the Western Australian Supreme Court heard how Duggan met his victim in a pub in Perth on the evening of May 5, 2004 and offered to walk her home before strangling her.
However Cassie in a flash has a vision of Zeke entering the carriage and strangling each of the defenseless women one by one.
Huston was boldest, once miaowing loudly at me across the auditorium during a scene in Prick Up Your Ears, as Alfred Molina’s character Kenneth Halliwell mimes strangling a cat.
Kemp rang 999 at 00.41am on Sunday, confessing to strangling Clair and claiming it had happened about two hours earlier.
Nicholas Tartaglione, 55, was convicted on Thursday on all counts by a federal jury in White Plains, New York, after strangling one man and shooting three others execution-style in a 2015 gangland dispute.
One account from the time says she attempted suicide by strangling herself with a pocket handkerchief.
Ownbey was accused of strangling and sexually assaulting the victim without her consent and knowingly causing her great bodily harm, and sexually assaulting her with both his person and a clothes hanger.
The expulsion of foreign journalists, beginning with Chun Han, was just one step in this long strangling of every form of individual freedom.
The man groped her and began strangling her when she fought back.
We maintain stability, despite the strangling sanctions by a number of Western countries and their regular attempts to destabilize the situation and draw Belarus into an armed conflict.
When BJ came of age, he left his family to enlist in the army and found his new calling: shooting, stabbing, and strangling Nazis.
Yet as we and other LPs have noted respectfully in our conversations with the regulators, the Canadian excise tax is strangling the economics of producers and as a result, not generating the sustainable tax dollars government expected.
A convicted rapist has been jailed for two years after strangling his partner in apparent retribution for breaking off their relationship.
Common combinations with strangling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and strangling 11×
- strangling her 11×
- of strangling 11×
- strangling and 7×
- by strangling 7×
- strangling his 6×
- strangling the 5×
- was strangling 5×
- after strangling 4×
- strangling him 4×