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How To Use Asphyxiate In A Sentence

  • And ultimately, they die from the diaphragm contracting to such an extent that they asphyxiate or suffocate to death.
  • Maybe she was hoping to asphyxiate him with carbon monoxide fumes.
  • Myriads of old cars, beat-up buses and superannuated trucks asphyxiate urban areas with their deadly exhaust, while the dirty two-stroke engines that power small vehicles emit ten times as much fine particulate matter as modern cars.
  • One member of the train crew was killed, and two nearby residents asphyxiated from breathing the gas.
  • They were over land, at least, so they wouldn't asphyxiate underwater.
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  • So, no flower names, no tree names, no gemstones, no names of musicians who asphyxiated on their own vomit, no intellectual ideals as middle names— How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
  • Poorly trained correctional officers have accidentally asphyxiated mentally ill prisoners whom they were trying to restrain.
  • In one, "a student was nearly asphyxiated while being restrained," and in the other, a student vomited from panic attacks after spending most of an academic year "confined to a closet, with no ventilation or outside source of light," according to the letter. Christopher Baker, 4th Grade Boy, Allegedly Stuffed Into Duffel Bag By School Employees
  • Steam rose from all directions, billowing into swirls, each a threatening tentacle ready to choke, suffocate, asphyxiate me.
  • You would asphyxiate from the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere.
  • But don't come complaining back to me when you start to asphyxiate.
  • They grew nearer, fully awakening me, and stopped, stifled in asphyxiated gags. This Side of Ultima Thule
  • They can asphyxiate you, burn you, bury you alive, or crush you under debris.
  • A post-mortem examination showed he was asphyxiated, or suffocated.
  • You have to be real careful that she doesn't asphyxiate or have difficulty with aspiration.
  • Tragedies involving dozens of people asphyxiated to death while packed in an ill-ventilated truck or vessel have so far not deterred them from risking their lives in seeking better lives.
  • I half-expect to asphyxiate, because with so many gasping at once, one would think all the oxygen would leave the air.
  • The abject tyranny of political correctness murderously asphyxiates us with sugary pleasantries and tedious nomenclature.
  • Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week's train.
  • Two women and 11 children were asphyxiated, and they burned to death. Alan Grayson: Did They Die in Vain?
  • Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week's train.
  • A special form of apparatus, the H-H inhalator, for the administration of a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide to asphyxiated patients was, therefore, devised and has been widely introduced.
  • Without the prodigious coolness of the engineer, who reversed the gyratory motion of the fore propeller and converted it into a suspensory screw, the men of the “Albatross” would all have been asphyxiated by the fall. Robur the Conqueror
  • -- Palestinians will settle for a cantonized "prison state," according to Jeff Halper, director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Israel will relax its military harshness and replace it with colonial exploitation masquerading as economic development; the process is well-advanced, Palestinian cities are ghettos, agricultural land is disappearing, Israel plunders the land, intends to exploit an expendable cheap labor pool, and the Territories are being "asphyxiated;" and/or Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion"
  • Although she can't possibly have any idea what she just said or why it amuses me so, and though her timing was nothing like the movie, I find it so funny that I nearly asphyxiate.
  • The city was buried under several meters of volcanic ash, many of the inhabitants being asphyxiated in their houses.
  • Unlike carbon dioxide systems, which will asphyxiate humans, these materials also are safe for occupants should they be unable to escape before the system discharges.
  • The murder inquiry found that the children had been asphyxiated.
  • We all know someone who's very closeness can almost asphyxiate us right?
  • Steve was a good friend I lost last year; he asphyxiated and/or drowned at Soda Springs up in Napa.
  • The kids and I enjoyed having her company, apart from the fact that she just about asphyxiated us all each morning with the amount of hair spray she was using.
  • Interestingly enough, both writers are suicides - Hemingway shot himself and Plath asphyxiated in a gas oven.
  • I think if there were any more people I would have asphyxiated.
  • They can asphyxiate you, burn you, bury you alive, or crush you under debris.
  • A chalupa is a hard corn shell appropriately shaped like a trough, into which ground beef bits are placed and then asphyxiated in a thick layer of melted Monterey Jack cheese.
  • Her children's allergy to the sun means they must live in near darkness: anything stronger than candlelight will cause the kids to break out in boils and then asphyxiate.
  • Infants and small children can become wedged in gaps and asphyxiate.
  • The effect asphyxiated almost all the fish and corals in the reefs fringing a 400-kilometer-long stretch of the Mentawai Islands.
  • If you asphyxiate and die, she'll only be happier.
  • Even if the burning of fossil fuel has so poisoned my city's air that I must leave immediately or asphyxiate, most people would permit me to escape by car.
  • It appears that some of these had rotted and produced a lethal gas which asphyxiated the crew members.
  • A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose.
  • One member of the train crew was killed, and two nearby residents asphyxiated from breathing the gas.
  • The young woman — who was killed in Van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day after Holloway disappeared — was bludgeoned and asphyxiated, according to the coroner's report. Lawyer: Van der Sloot to plead temporary insanity
  • We are then asked to believe that each prisoner, even as he was choking on those rags, climbed up on his washbasin, slipped his head through the noose, tightened it, and leapt from the washbasin to hang until he asphyxiated. Matthew Yglesias » Death at Gitmo
  • Pupils would often fall out of their chairs and asphyxiate with laughter.
  • Sulphur hexafluoride itself is harmless except in a confined space, where it displaces oxygen and can asphyxiate people.
  • The fact that contractions occurred in dead and living preparations suggested galvanism had application in the revival of persons asphyxiated or drowned.
  • The men trapped in the mine were asphyxiated by gas.
  • They can asphyxiate you, burn you, bury you alive, or crush you under debris.
  • He was asphyxiated by the smoke.
  • The murder inquiry found that the children had been asphyxiated.
  • Helen gave her a hug that temporarily asphyxiated her friend.

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