asphyxiate

Example Sentences

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Hospital surveillance video shows that deputies dragged Otieno, his wrists and ankles shackled, into an admissions room, where officers and hospital employees piled on top of him for 11 minutes, until Otieno asphyxiated.

From Washington Post

Three days later, Otieno was dead; authorities say he was asphyxiated after sheriff’s deputies and hospital workers piled upon him at a state mental hospital in an incident that was caught on video.

From Washington Post

He was asphyxiated in the process, according to the local prosecutor.

From New York Times

On Feb. 18, 1980, she was found slain in her bed, asphyxiated with a gag made from a torn pillowcase.

From Los Angeles Times

The flue was closed, and she was asphyxiated by carbon monoxide.

From Washington Post