strangling

How To Use strangling In A Sentence

• Republicans aim to end all "job-killing regulations" -- especially those that, according to House Speaker John Boehner, are "strangling" business with detailed requirements over health, safety, the environment, corporate governance and finance. Robert Reich: Why the Republican Attack on "Job-Killing Regulations" Is Dumb
• It took all my will power to keep myself from strangling that person to death.
• In the Autumn, when the convolvulus has taken over suburban Australian gardens, strangling trees, insinuating itself into garden sheds, creeping across garden paths, the very name declares its despised status as a weed.
• Dougal thrust Gino backward into the wall, his fingers tight around his neck, literally strangling him.
• It took all of Emerald's self control to prevent herself from strangling the annoyance.
• For some, this month and the work of the Ramadan drummer is a source of income otherwise absent in Gaza under complete and strangling siege. Global Voices in English » Palestine: The Experience Of Ramadan In Gaza
• Her voice had shaken badly and more than once, he had caught the sound of her strangling a sob.
• Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy.
• It was only too evident that if he had carried out the idea of strangling Caffie, all the difficulties against which he had struggled, and which would overwhelm him, if not the following day, at least in a few days, would have disappeared immediately. Conscience — Complete
• I had not an inkling that it was two hernias slowly extruding through abdominal muscle and strangling my colon -- nor of the carcinoid tumor sitting like a time bomb in my appendix. Archive 2010-03-01