strangulation

Example Sentences

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Specialists with the Department of Fish and Wildlife speculate that he may have lost his toes due to umbilical cord strangulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Johanna Robinson, a member of the Sentencing Council, called the new guidelines "a really important recognition of the harm that occurs within strangulation and suffocation".

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

St. John said many parents know that babies should be on their backs to sleep, but warnings about strangulation by blankets or suffocation by sharing a bed with them sometimes fall through the cracks.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

In a follow-up text, she says she told the authorities “this was not an attack” and that strangulation “did not occur and should be removed” from the case file “immediately.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2023

The startled sparrow shot downwards and stopped with a jerk, only thick neck feathers saving her from strangulation.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques