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  • For your $400 base-price ticket (benefiting international exchange programs), it's like the party in a movie about rich people, except no one gets garroted by a spy.

    The Meridian Ball: Champagne, bonbons, dancing, no speeches The Reliable Source 2010

  • Poor Lazarus — last spring an intruder murdered her sisters and left her garroted in the coop.

    Hens 2009

  • For your $400 base-price ticket (benefiting international exchange programs), it's like the party in a movie about rich people, except no one gets garroted by a spy.

    The Meridian Ball: Champagne, bonbons, dancing, no speeches The Reliable Source 2010

  • Poor Lazarus — last spring an intruder murdered her sisters and left her garroted in the coop.

    Hens 2009

  • Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself.

    Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Addams tells stories in which people electrocute, poison and garrot one another but in which nobody gets electrocuted, poisoned or garroted.

    The Charms of the Macabre Andrew Stark 2010

  • They garroted travelers to appease their blood-thirsty god.

    Riddle On Grand Trunk Road: Where To Begin? 2010

  • Also in the 1970s, final girls and victims alike suffered from what Syracuse University professor Kendall Phillips calls "sexualized terror," wherein any woman who was sexually active got axed (or knifed or strangled or garroted).

    Women In Horror Films 2010

  • Addams tells stories in which people electrocute, poison and garrot one another but in which nobody gets electrocuted, poisoned or garroted.

    The Charms of the Macabre Andrew Stark 2010

  • Addams tells stories in which people electrocute, poison and garrot one another but in which nobody gets electrocuted, poisoned or garroted.

    The Charms of the Macabre Andrew Stark 2010

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