gagged

past tense of gag

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gagged But Larry, a true cynic, was stuck in a different time, gagged and bound by a tireless insistence on creating art that subverted and satirized those same good old-fashioned family values. Michael Cuby, Them., 24 Oct. 2025 They had been bound, gagged, and shot in the head. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025 Bohumila gagged, spitting beer all over herself. Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025 When Rochelle Luna, 18, arrived at the house hours later, Djerf bound, gagged and raped her before stabbing her and slitting her throat, court records said. Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gagged
Verb
  • Katy Puig vomited a gush of seawater as a boater hoisted her unconscious body out of the water, fighting the current to get her to a yacht that had come to the rescue before first responders arrived in a flotilla.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This agitprop is vomited out 24/7 by Democrat media apparatchiks who were also unerringly described by Orwell in his novel 1984.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • On Tuesday, a vehicle breakdown on the westbound upper deck choked the morning commute into Marin.
    Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the time, though, as joked by Kang and Kodos themselves, they are written into the show as background cameos or to simply narrate their observations from their spaceship, laughing at us, maniacally.
    Grace Dean, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Dreyer joked at the end of her post.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025

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