How to Use asphyxiate in a Sentence

asphyxiate

verb

• The swelling blocked his windpipe and led him to asphyxiate, says the notice of claim filed Tuesday with the Court of Claims.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
• The trick was to drop the bomb into the hole and then cover the opening with dirt so the noxious fumes would asphyxiate the groundhog.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• That had to have been a [lesson in how] to asphyxiate yourself.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 23 July 2019
• The stepfather of a 13-year-old girl found dead on the side of an Arizona road is accused of asphyxiating the girl to death.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 1 June 2017
• Her killer wrapped duct tape around her face, causing her to asphyxiate.
  — Fox News, 6 Oct. 2019
• If the flow of blood was strangled, our baby would asphyxiate.
  — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• The smell is alive and dead, asphyxiating and alluring all at once.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
• Many people exposed to the cloud of gas would be asphyxiated.
  — Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2019
• Many of the victims swept up by the eruption were long thought to have died by asphyxiating on ashes and toxic gases.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Tylee had been dismembered and burned; J.J. was asphyxiated and wrapped in plastic and bound by duct tape.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
• The deceased — a 4-month-old boy with multiple old and fresh breaks in his ribs — clearly had been asphyxiated, Downs said.
  — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com, 31 May 2017
• Most recently, five climbers were killed in 2013 when they were asphyxiated by ash near the summit.
  — Jes Aznar and Russell Goldman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• With Dylan unconscious, Miriam tapes his mouth and nose shut and places a plastic bag over his head to asphyxiate him.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• Good group decision-making needs oxygen, and if the boss sucks it out of the room, some idea or someone is going to be asphyxiated.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2019
• All were killed in his suburban Norwood Park ranch house, most of them strangled or asphyxiated, and Gacy buried 26 of the bodies in the crawl space beneath his home.
  — Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
• When that didn't work, Linda stuffed a washcloth in his mouth as Mary Beth held his nose shut to asphyxiate him, charging documents state.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
• Two men were killed in the bloody eviction and two infant children were said to have asphyxiated from tear gas inhalation.
  — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
• Either the explosion’s shock wave will crush your internal organs, or the hot ash and gas will asphyxiate you.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• Police believe Reed asphyxiated Mckelvey and tried to burn the house down.
  — Omar Abdel-Baqui, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2018
• Many victims, some barely out of their teens, were burned or asphyxiated.
  — Ana Vanessa Herrero, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• The umbilical cord had knotted and wrapped tightly around her neck and chest, asphyxiating Sophie in the womb.
  — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• It had been doused with lighter fluid and set on fire, and an autopsy determined that she was asphyxiated.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• Floyd's killing also helped shed light on the death Adama Traoré, whose family believes he was asphyxiated by police in 2016.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• Police said she was abducted, raped and asphyxiated and her dead body then set alight on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
• There is the body of a rabbit, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in the garage, honored and painstakingly restored.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• The police said on Wednesday that Eaton was asphyxiated.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• Her character is raped and kills herself by asphyxiating herself in a kitchen oven.
  — David Belcher, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2018
• Denny, the decision said, then placed Day on his side to prevent him from asphyxiating by rolling onto his stomach.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2020
• Volunteers kept some of them from asphyxiating by keeping them on land wrapped in wet blankets, or in shallow tubs of water with tiny life jackets.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
• People were trapped in the open, incinerated, asphyxiated and strafed with machine-gun fire.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024