How To Use Garrote In A Sentence

  • When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted.
  • For your $400 base-price ticket (benefiting international exchange programs), it's like the party in a movie about rich people, except no one gets garroted by a spy. The Meridian Ball: Champagne, bonbons, dancing, no speeches
  • He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, “To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.” Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • 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
  • The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
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  • After the AFL/NFL merger, the garrote process would happen again in 1970, on an even bigger stage. One Season
  • When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted.
  • In the meantime, he had cast off his accursed plaything and leapt over the railings like a boxer over the paregoric ropes which would have garroted him had he not been both careful and proficient.
  • To lessen this evil, the detectives one night quietly made visits to some half a dozen "lushing cribs," as they are called, in Eighth and Fourteenth Streets, and seized about thirty noted thieves, burglars, and garroters, and locked them up for safe - keeping. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
  • The autopsy revealed that poor JonBenet was strangled to death by ligature applied through the twisting of a fairly intricate garrote. Craig Alan Silverman: JonBenet Truths Might Still Be Told
  • It's painful to say that in front of them, but she was brutally murdered with a garrote, a device used like a noose with a handle.
  • It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs.
  • Trell looked as innocent as the man who claimed his garrote was a handkerchief. Mission to Moulokin
  • They garroted travelers to appease their blood-thirsty god. Riddle On Grand Trunk Road: Where To Begin?
  • In the meantime, he had cast off his accursed plaything and leapt over the railings like a boxer over the paregoric ropes which would have garroted him had he not been both careful and proficient.
  • But there was no blood as a practical matter because the garrote was already tightened around her neck, stopping the flow of blood from her heart to her brain when she was struck on the head.
  • It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs.
  • Syrie: Un édit les avait bannis de leur patrie, Et, se faisant bourreaux, des hommes irrités, Sans avirons, sans eau, sans pain et garrotés, Sur une frêle barque échouée au rivage, Les avaient à la mer poussés dans un orage. The Paris Sketch Book
  • You felt instinctively as if something terrible had happened here: that the tribesmen had crucified the station master perhaps, or garroted the ticket collector.
  • Also in the 1970s, final girls and victims alike suffered from what Syracuse University professor Kendall Phillips calls "sexualized terror," wherein any woman who was sexually active got axed (or knifed or strangled or garroted). Women In Horror Films
  • The head of a home made spear, various knives, a quite professional garrote and some steel tube & chain DIY nun-chucks. Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that was AWSM!
  • 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
  • She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
  • Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
  • When the governor learned this, irritated because his order of arrest had not proved effectual, he ordered the soldiers to be arrested who constituted the guard, and would have had them garrote the alferez Don Francisco de Rivera, who was in command at that gate, because they had not killed a friar and taken prisoner Don Pedro de Monroy. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, co
  • ‘And I would like to point out I can use guitar string as garrote wire,’ Val chirruped almost pleasantly, though the half-berserk glimmer in his eyes warned of sincerity.
  • It's painful to say that in front of them, but she was brutally murdered with a garrote, a device used like a noose with a handle.
  • It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.
  • She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
  • You felt instinctively as if something terrible had happened here: that the tribesmen had crucified the station master perhaps, or garroted the ticket collector.
  • So, I don't know why he suddenly went to that basement room, fashioned a garrote from something that was right there in plain sight and brutally murdered her.
  • She was about to walk out of the restroom when she felt the garrote wrap around her neck.
  • The garrucha or strappado and the garrotes, combined with the water-torture and the rack, represented the survival of the fittest in the natural selection of torments concerning which the Holy Office in Italy and Spain had such a vast experience. Travels through France and Italy
  • The second pronunciation of "garrote" sounds like "quote" and the current meaning of garrote is to execute by strangulation. Sarah Palin's most famous quote and the problem of a quote becoming famous in a misremembered form.
  • So, I don't know why he suddenly went to that basement room, fashioned a garrote from something that was right there in plain sight and brutally murdered her.
  • She was about to walk out of the restroom when she felt the garrote wrap around her neck.
  • This one held a lone shotgun and revolver; the other items were more esoteric, including foils, swords, crossbows and bolts, spears, axes, hatchets, knives of all sizes and shapes, stakes, gallon jugs of holy water, and garrotes.
  • The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
  • This one held a lone shotgun and revolver; the other items were more esoteric, including foils, swords, crossbows and bolts, spears, axes, hatchets, knives of all sizes and shapes, stakes, gallon jugs of holy water, and garrotes.
  • Este capitan por sus proprias manos exercitaba las fuerzas, con un garrote maté muchos i decia, 'este es buen palo para castigar á estos;' i desque lo habia muerto, 'O, quan bien lo dé.' The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
  • Poor Lazarus — last spring an intruder murdered her sisters and left her garroted in the coop. Hens
  • As the garrote grows tighter, parts of the private market will spring to life. Administration proposals to overhaul federal housing role draw fire from left
  • But there was no blood as a practical matter because the garrote was already tightened around her neck, stopping the flow of blood from her heart to her brain when she was struck on the head.
  • It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.

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