| 1. | 'Well, well,' cried her husband, crossly, 'don't strangle me for tha. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 3. | That makes thee strangle thy propriety. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 8. | I will acquaintance strangle and look strang. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | Will serve to strangle thee a rush will be a bea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | A strangled cry from the bed startled me. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | Inglethorp cried out in a strangled voice, her eyes fixed on the docto. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 12. | They could willingly have strangled M. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 13. | He awoke with a cry, and grasping a snake in each hand, strangled them both. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 14. | Staring full ghastly like a strangled ma. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | And there die strangled ere my Romeo come. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | _A skeleton judashand strangles the light. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 17. | Every year--every month, almost--men were strangled in England for what he had done. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 18. | He has strangled his language in his tears. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |