How To Use Electrocute In A Sentence

  • Mehna was jolted hard, as if she'd been electrocuted, and she felt herself dislodge from the tranquilizer.
  • She saw the lightning hit him and electrocute him.
  • A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • They used to beat us up, electrocute us, they did a lot of things for us in active abuse.
  • But he ran through the portal before the track was laid, and he climbed a catenary pole, and was electrocuted.
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  • All are on a wire and one will go to another wire and when that bird doesn't get electrocuted, all the birds will go to that other wire.
  • The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track.
  • Don't touch that wire, you'll electrocute yourself.
  • James Roach was electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 .
  • But if someone just says his washing machine is a bad one, you don't know yet whether it tears the clothes into strips or soaks them in oily water or just doesn't move at all when you switch on, or electrocutes the children when they go near it.
  • Well, we haven't electrocuted him, beaten him with poles or given him the strappado - but that can be remedied.
  • The figures come after an inquest jury found last week that mental health services and the prison system had failed a man who electrocuted himself in prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • His unluckiest dog cocked his leg at a lamp post - and was electrocuted.
  • He felt like he was being "electrocuted" and cried out in pain. The Daily Pennsylvanian
  • The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track.
  • Can you be electrocuted when miso soup oozes into a pager attached to your belt?
  • He nearly electrocuted himself a couple of times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the six fatalities in New York State were in individuals in (1) Spring Valley, Rockland Co., where a Good Samaritan in his 50s was electrocuted as he attempted to assist a child who had gone into a flooded street with downed electrical wires; (2) New Scotland, Albany Co., where a 68-year-old woman was recovered after drowning in an overflowing creek; and (3) Bellport Bay, Suffolk Co., where a 68-year-old windsurfer drowned. John Tepper Marlin: Measuring Irene's Damage
  • The principal electrical inspector at Health and Safety Executive, who investigated the incident said: ‘A fraction of an amp is all that is needed to electrocute you.’
  • According to a technical report that addresses the question every boater reading this will have, the current is not strong enough to electrocute a person who comes in contact with the water.
  • Addams tells stories in which people electrocute, poison and garrot one another but in which nobody gets electrocuted, poisoned or garroted. The Charms of the Macabre
  • Her pulsating energy is normally symbolised by a frazzle of electrocuted hair.
  • Also, you get a lot of deaths, people after the hurricane coming out of their homes, walking around to survey the damage, getting electrocuted from downed power lines in these pools of water.
  • One exception, already canonical, is the photograph of the man made to stand on a box, hooded and sprouting wires, reportedly told he would be electrocuted if he fell off. Boing Boing: May 23, 2004 - May 29, 2004 Archives
  • The 14-year-old son jumps in, gets electrocuted, and his father tries to save him, both of them die in that pool.
  • She got down on her knees, poked her head over the arm of a chair and stared at us as if she had been electrocuted.
  • We've asked the subagency to fix them immediately," Candrian said, adding that a visitor was reportedly injured after being electrocuted several days ago. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • There are wires that can be tripped over, microphones that can electrocute you, flying bottles that can strike you right on the noggin.
  • A man was feared electrocuted, floods rose and footie was called off. The Sun
  • ‘Careful, you don't wanna electrocute us,’ Toni teased, scooching over to him.
  • Charles Becker, a policeman who took bribes, was tried for the crime and electrocuted at Sing Sing.
  • He was electrocuted when he touched the bare wires.
  • Three people were electrocuted by falling power-lines.
  • What if some bizarre electrical line bursts and the microphone electrocutes me?
  • The serial killer was electrocuted
  • They lifted my blindfold and showed me a man being electrocuted. Times, Sunday Times
  • The energy overload feedback has electrocuted several that were not killed by shrapnel when the explosions occurred.
  • The figures come after an inquest jury found last week that mental health services and the prison system had failed a man who electrocuted himself in prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • The prisoners were electrocuted by prison guards when they complained, it was claimed. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is recorded that following the dinner, with son and father participating, a bolt of lightning struck the wooden pavilion to electrocute the father.
  • The figures come after an inquest jury found last week that mental health services and the prison system had failed a man who electrocuted himself in prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • Haphazardly installed electrical wiring is common in many small private schools and can create fires or electrocute an unwary child or teacher.
  • So what he did is he put a bit of it around one arm and then linked the other part of it around the other arm and didn't realise that the current that would be going through would then electrocute him.
  • The figures come after an inquest jury found last week that mental health services and the prison system had failed a man who electrocuted himself in prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • He nearly electrocuted himself a couple of times. Times, Sunday Times
  • An expensive and often painful procedure, it involves inserting a needle directly into the hair follicle to electrocute the root.
  • In an electrical fire, the water may conduct the current, which can electrocute you.
  • A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • He nearly electrocuted himself a couple of times. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Reverend Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water in a baptistery at University Baptist Church when he was electrocuted on Sunday morning.
  • During Burge's trial last summer, witnesses testified that he personally shackled, electrocuted, suffocated and beat them to force their admissions of guilt. Burge Lawyers Want Sentence Shortened Based On His Military Record
  • Sean decided he'd had enough of being electrician when he was electrocuted on the job one day.
  • Don't touch that wire, you'll electrocute yourself.
  • Price: 3,500,000 Euro ckolderup oh no, semantic polysemy! we've never had to deal with that before! csessums patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan cwaxler civil case Tiffany brought against eBay drothschild iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York jessamyn Personally, I'm after the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair. Paste to Win! (A Twitter Contest) - Anil Dash
  • Listen in for the details of a life full of highs, lows and wonders that may seem to have changed a little bit in the retelling (i.e. being "electrocuted" by a stingray, or breaking a bone "right off my leg"), all of which certainly qualify him as "one in a hundred million! The Livin La Vida Low-Carb Show
  • Charlie is accused of strangling a white boy to death and will be electrocuted, but the father's homophobia prevents him from being there for his son. Irene Monroe: Black, Homophobic Horror Flicks
  • Don't touch that wire, you'll electrocute yourself.
  • A man was feared electrocuted, floods rose and footie was called off. The Sun
  • Unrest was triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police.
  • They were electrocuted in a power substation where they hid, thinking police were chasing them.
  • Three people were electrocuted by falling power-lines.
  • Addams tells stories in which people electrocute, poison and garrot one another but in which nobody gets electrocuted, poisoned or garroted. The Charms of the Macabre
  • They lifted my blindfold and showed me a man being electrocuted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Almost unbelievably, showjumping was also the sport where an unknown but large number of big-name trainers paid a hit man to electrocute their horses for the insurance money. Yatima » 2009 » May
  • Patrick Desjardins was electrocuted while using a floor buffing and polishing machine in the garage of the Wal-Mart in Grand Falls, N.B. CBC | Top Stories News
  • Can you be electrocuted when miso soup oozes into a pager attached to your belt?
  • Haphazardly installed electrical wiring is common in many small private schools and can create fires or electrocute an unwary child or teacher.
  • As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’
  • A man was feared electrocuted, floods rose and footie was called off. The Sun
  • There are wires that can be tripped over, microphones that can electrocute you, flying bottles that can strike you.
  • The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track.
  • Observational studies have found no evidence that insect electrocuters and ultrasonic buzzers reduce bites to humans from infected anopheline mosquitoes.
  • She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted
  • A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Hirst's dead sharks and electrocuted flies, butchered lambs and diamond-studded crania are all reminders of the futility of human struggle and the inevitability of death. The Difficult Art of Inspiring Olympians
  • They lifted my blindfold and showed me a man being electrocuted. Times, Sunday Times

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