asphyxiate in a sentence

Examples

1. She had been raped and asphyxiated, police said.
2. Hoping to asphyxiate themselves, one group ignited futons.
3. The fish asphyxiates, which isn't nice.
4. The dead children were asphyxiated by smoke in their sleep, firefighters reported.
5. Zec, 60, had been asphyxiated with a cloth around noon Friday.
6. Many were crushed and asphyxiated fatally in the stampede.
7. The French economy is being asphyxiated by the weight of taxes and expenditure,
8. Sixty people were killed, most of them asphyxiated or trampled to death.
9. "First, the ancient languages were asphyxiated.
10. Most of the dead were asphyxiated, police said.