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How to use choke in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Choke means to be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict). Example: “Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.”

Examples of choke by meaning

verbTo be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the...

  • Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.
  • Lenore began to choke with the fine dust and to feel her eyes smart and to see it settle on her hands and dress.1919, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in The Desert of Wheat, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 66

verbTo prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

  • The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.

verbTo obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

  • to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
  • But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, published 1992, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 492
  • There have been predictions that within a few years all roads within a 17-mile radius of the Airport will be choked.1962 April, “London Airport rail link”, in Modern Railways, page 222

verbTo hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish...

  • I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.1998, Nuruddin Farah, chapter 3, in Secrets, Penguin, published 1999, page 67

verbTo perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.

  • He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.
  • “I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said.2019 January 22, “1 Point Away, Serena Stunned by Pliskova at Australian Open”, in The New York Times

verbTo move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

  • A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.1973, Wayne Otto et al., chapter 13, in Corrective and Remedial Teaching, 2nd edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 361

verbTo hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.

  • Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.2014, Roger Fredericks, The Flexible Golf Swing, page 108

verbTo be checked or stopped, as if by choking.

  • Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Part 3, Chapter 29, p. 413

More sentences with choke

  • The casserole was half-baked, but I choked it down anyway to be polite.From the entry half-baked
  • It's important not to go overboard and choke while playing chubby bunny.From the entry chubby bunny
  • When she slapped me, I tried hard to choke back my tears.From the entry choke back
  • He had a cutting retort on the tip of his tongue, but he choked it back.From the entry choke back
  • I told him what happened, but he choked on the truth.From the entry choke on
  • The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.From the entry enrich
  • You didn't have to buy enough wrapping paper to choke a horse, just because it was on sale.From the entry enough to choke a horse
  • Hearing that song always makes me choke up.From the entry choke up
  • It chokes me up to think about how he died.From the entry choke up
  • I was already stuffed, but I managed to choke down some more apple pie anyway. It was so good that I couldn't stop.From the entry choke down
  • Yu 'ad a shrimp an' it choked yu praaperly. Yu was always a squeamy little feller. I can't never think 'ow yu managed in the war-time, makin' they shells.From the entry squeamy
  • "This is where I choke the chicken," Giddy told him with a grin.2026, Gary Porter, Brave Souls, page 37. From the entry choke the chicken
  • She hoped Amelia would choke on her supper when she saw Marc's tweets and photos.2020 March 10, Patricia Scanlan, The Liberation of Brigid Dunne: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry bioch
  • Luthan chokes again, coughing up more blood, and for the first time Oriana sees the unlight.2020, A.F.E. Smith, Dawn Rising, IronWright Books, →ISBN. From the entry unlight
  • His mother, Dorothy, hung around longer, long enough for her to choke on her own vomit.2019 July 16, Colson Whitehead, chapter 10, in The Nickel Boys, Vintage, page 125. From the entry rotgut
  • Such choked jets may explain transrelativistic SNe and low-luminosity (LL) GRBs.2015, Nicholas Senno, Kohta Murase, Peter Meszaros, “Choked Jets and Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts as Hidden Neutrino Sources”, in arXiv. From the entry transrelativistic
  • We got out of the car, the guy resisted, and I choked him out.2014, Gary Farmer, The Streets Are Blue, page 302. From the entry choke out
  • The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line.2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry fluid
  • Brooks’s classic movie “Broadcast News.” But at its worst, the show chokes on its own sanctimony.2012 June 21, Alessandra Stanley, “So Sayeth the Anchorman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sanctimony
  • But I might get soft mints instead so he doesn't choke on them.'2011, Jo Cotterill, “White Clover”, in Sweet Hearts (Forget Me Not), London: Red Fox, →ISBN, page 216. From the entry humbug
  • That killed them all and we were choked but fly-free for a few minutes.2008, Charlie Allan, The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a Buchan Farm, Birlinn. From the entry skoosh
  • Dust particles floated in the air, thick enough to choke a snake.2008, Cathy McDavid, The Family Plan, page 23. From the entry enough to choke a snake
  • Studies of the phytoplasma associated with choke cherry X-disease in North Dakota.1998, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 4544. From the entry X-disease
  • Shize, man, don't scare me like that, I nearly choked on my toast.1998 December 12, GLC, “Re: Yonder Wacky December Survey!”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet). From the entry shize
  • I ain’t goin’ . . . .” He choked and fell back.1996, Donald Johnston, chapter 11, in The Echoes of L’Arbre Croche, [Michigan?]: Lord & Allerton, →ISBN, part 3 (Strange Caller), page 160. From the entry s'
  • When the mighty duststorm, silent and terrifying, first engulfed her, she thought she would choke.1974, James A[lbert] Michener, “Drylands”, in Centennial, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN; Dial Press trade paperback edition, New…. From the entry spit
  • I’ve shoveled up the gypsum till it nigh on makes you choke.1964, Ron Angel, “The ICI Song”. From the entry nigh on
  • He choked on a mouthful of batmeat, spat it across the room and bounded to his feet.1952 January, Walter M. Miller, Jr., “The Reluctant Traitor”, in Amazing Stories, page 28. From the entry batmeat

Meaning of choke

  1. verb To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
  2. verb To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
  3. verb To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

Full definition of choke

Questions about choke in a sentence

How do you use choke in a sentence?
Choke is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.”
What is a short sentence with choke?
“Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.”
What does choke mean?
Choke means to be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).

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