Synonyms
Examples for "choker"
Examples for "choker"
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Back in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, America's eponymous choker has good news for me.
2
William had given her the pearl choker for their third wedding anniversary.
3
She glanced at Nelson and found him wearing a choker of light.
4
In her jewelry box back in Baltimore was a four-strand pearl choker.
5
She stood by the bed, reached back and slowly unfastened the choker.
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Two countries have placed a strangler fig on their coats of arms.
2
Now for the first time in his narrative did the strangler betray emotion.
3
Then his voice stopped as if a strangler's thumb had blocked the windpipe.
4
They took a fancy to the strangler figs and brought back a sapling.
5
Graham Guthrie, very pale, stood looking down at the dead strangler.
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The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.
2
But the public garrotter, he is a bad thing too.
3
Many a man had they seen with his throat in the hands of the public garrotter; and all had begun with denials who ended thus.
4
Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters.
5
After dinner at the Birds' one evening we fell to talking of garrotters.
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The name means 'throttler' in Greek.
2
The Hamiltonian guitar throttlers release their first album - sharp and brittle as an oyster shell, yet filled with pearls that stroke the ear.
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It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
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The methods of the garroter were quick, sure and silent.
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Look about you, or you will feel the garroter's hug.
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One hand of the garroter was on his throat, the other was busily rifling his pockets.
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Even now, in the case of this bloody-handed butcher, this ruthless garroter....
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He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew's-harp.
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A garroter lay on the roof ready to entangle me with his noose if I should escape the dagger of the old hag.
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I wonder do we meet garroters in society?
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He sneaked behind him and caught him by the throat, as the garroters used to do in the fog.
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After it is cleared, it is vital to keep it cleared of weeds, which worse garroters of crops than trees.
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Indulging in these reflections, not unaccompanied with smiles, I continued my way, with little fear, myself, of pickpockets or garroters.
12
He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and captured, but escaped the garroters to follow General Walker to Nicaragua.
13
They are nearly all thieves, and a very large proportion of them are but the decoys of the most desperate male garroters and thieves.
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Sometimes these girls deserve more pity than blame; but a very large proportion of them, perhaps the majority, act as decoys for garroters and thieves.