Examples of using "Ersticken" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom was suffocating.
Layla was suffocating.
- I thought I was going to suffocate on the crowded train.
- I thought that I was going to suffocate on the crowded train.
where the surviving fish either suffocate or are crushed to death.
I don't know what's worse: being dismembered or suffocated.
Tom laughed so hard he almost choked.
Rivers like the Rhine and the Elbe have soaked up so much heat that fish are beginning to suffocate.
The witch and her daughter carried the weakly Queen into the bath-room, and put her into the bath; then they shut the door and ran away. But in the bath-room they had made a fire of such deadly heat that the beautiful young Queen was soon suffocated.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
As the unkempt cashier lazily glanced back and forth between the fake ID and Tom’s face, Tom felt a sudden urge to pee as his nerves threatened to also stifle his breath right then and there. He was younger than the high school seniors that dragged him here, but he was easily mistaken for a grown man. It's not his fault that he was an early bloomer.
When Mary’s brother found out about the friendship between Tom and Mary during one of their study sessions, he was about to beat Tom up, until he figured out a way to profit from this. He decided to allow him to keep seeing her only if he did "favors" for him "every now and then". And if he ever weaseled out or snitched on them, he'd sneak into his room at night and personally suffocate him.