How to Use electrocute in a Sentence

electrocute

verb
  • Tasers them, electrocutes them, kicks them in the face, throws them across the room.
    Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Remain in the water, and a live wire will electrocute you.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2021
  • Or maybe the light switch to electrocute you with, to keep the right analogy going.
    Fox News, 12 July 2018
  • She might get tangled up in the wires and electrocute herself.
    Elisa Albert, Longreads, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The young men jumped in to rescue the dog but were electrocuted after trying to get out.
    Nick Sestanovich, The Mercury News, 23 June 2019
  • If someone were to get electrocuted or worse —-I can’t have that on my head man.
    Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 2 June 2018
  • Priests would even use cattle prongs to electrocute the children.
    Brandi Morin, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The kids had pointy heads, and everybody looked as if they’d been electrocuted.
    John Ortved, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The state, one of eight that still electrocute inmates, has yet to assemble a firing squad.
    Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune, 6 June 2021
  • Set them up to walk into a puddle, then electrocute them by flipping a light switch? Try.
    Ebenezer Samuel, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Some died of hypothermia, burned to death while huddling near a hot plate for warmth, or were electrocuted by the third rail.
    William McGurn, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
  • They can be electrocuted, drown, set themselves on fire with a faulty stove or fireplace, or freeze to death.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The police suspect the bird may have been electrocuted because its claws had burn marks on them.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • But the first horrific tragedy was Jack Jr., who was only 5 and a half years old and was electrocuted in a trailer park.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The end came as the result of a vicious left hook to the body that seemed to electrocute Fortea, forcing him to take a knee and surrender to the referee's ten count.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • While working as a lineman two years ago, James was electrocuted and lost half his face.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • James had lost half his face and his left eye when he was electrocuted on the job as an electrical lineman in June 2021.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Tens of thousands of civets were drowned or electrocuted.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • So when all the actors jumped in, they were slightly electrocuted.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There were wires from the telephone pole, electrocuting.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And at the end of their short lives, the animals are either anally electrocuted, gassed, or beaten to death.
    Pj Smith, refinery29.com, 7 May 2020
  • While cleaning the kitchen on Sunday, the two teenagers were electrocuted by a loose cable, the New York Times reported.
    Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In Atlanta, a man was electrocuted by a downed power line.
    Brook Silva-Braga, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The standard algorithm saw birds perched on a tree branch, Norman saw a man electrocuted to death.
    Joi Ito, WIRED, 9 May 2018
  • The man had been electrocuted and suffered burns, according to the statement.
    Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
  • The two boys entered a power substation to hide from police in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, and were electrocuted.
    Time, 29 June 2023
  • During the war in Cyprus in 1974, mothers told daughters how to electrocute themselves if Turkish soldiers approached, to avert the pain and shame of rape.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • From that electrocution, the dog's owner heard and came running out to try and save the dog and sadly got electrocuted as well.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
  • The eels leapt and electrocuted the approaching rod and plate, and both the voltage and the magnitude of current rose as the eels ascended higher.
    National Geographic, 6 June 2016
  • Trees were uprooted, falling wires electrocuted horses as streetcars ground to a halt and 200 houses lost their roofs.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024

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