How to use choking in a sentence

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• The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.From the entry choke
• His face turned unbelievably blue. We realized he was actually choking.From the entry unbelievably
• Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.From the entry asphyxia
• He's choking, I think I yelled, help me turn him on his side.2017 July 17, John R Hewson, Corbett's Daughter, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry Heimlich
• The impact threw the passengers "hard forward" and the cabin filled with choking, blinding smoke.2015, Thomas Fensch, Associated Press Coverage of a Major Disaster: The Crash of Delta Flight 1141, Routledge, →ISBN, page 159. From the entry buy the big one
• The jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pragia. From the entry hypergrowth
• The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking.2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry keelhauling
• Grass and weeds had a good hold in the gutters and were choking the drains.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 230. From the entry downspouting
• "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo!" said I, choking back my rage.1949, Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks. From the entry whoo
• Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 76. From the entry respiration
• Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall as though he would never breathe again.1911, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 51. From the entry huddle
• The Count spat out a palateful of finest Dom, choking.2013, Ian Thornton, The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms, page 87. From the entry palateful
• "Whatever!" I pretend to stick my finger in my mouth and make a choking sound of mock disgust at Beth's compliment.2005, Loung Ung, Lucky Child. From the entry gag me with a spoon
• By the final whistle at Murrayfield last night, the Australians were choking back the bitter pill of disappointment and defeat.2004 November 7, Simon Turnbull, “Young Scots give Williams a silver lining”, in The Independent, UK. From the entry bitter pill
• "Today we may be choking off competition. . . .2003 February 21, Jonathan Krim., “FCC Delivers Mixed Vote on Competition”, in Washington Post. From the entry play fast and loose
• Symptoms related to pressure of the thyroid on neighboring structures in the neck include dysphagia, oxyphonia, dyspnea, and a choking sensation.1984, Seymour I. Schwartz, Principles of surgery - Volume 2, page 1550. From the entry oxyphonia
• She thought it was less the shade than the noise which was befogging her vision, choking her thoughts.1981, Ramsey Campbell, chapter 8, in The Nameless, New York: Tor, published 1985, page 75. From the entry befog
• Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 42. From the entry choke
• I mean, the wrinkles coming, the gray choking out the black, the skin slackening and sinews getting stringy?1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XXVI, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, pages 518–519. From the entry choke out
• At six major race tracks across the nation, chalk-eaters (form players) were choking last weekend over a straight flush of longshots.1949, Time, volume 54, page 36. From the entry chalk eater
• A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion?1939, John Steinbeck, East of Eden. From the entry vague
• I jumped on him and started choking him."1935 April 25, “U.S. Judge and Wife Killed by Bandits”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 16 Jan 2010. From the entry light into
• The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy.2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman. From the entry peanut bunker
• But in this sensitised state, a sort of antiautistic state, the world, especially the interpersonal world, could feel dangerously sharp, explosive, toxic, choking.2012, Andrew Relph, Not Drowning, Reading, unnumbered page. From the entry antiautistic
• People with AIDS tend to die after years of suffering, often screaming from the agony of cryptococcal meningitis or choking on thrush fungus.2009 September 27, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “If AIDS Went the Way of Smallpox”, in New York Times. From the entry cryptococcal
• There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. From the entry shoat
• HER face buried in her hands, choking with heart-breaking sobs, Asa sat in the shade of the kamachili tree, fragrant with flowers.1926, Philippine Education Magazine - Volume 23, page 214. From the entry kamachili
• You cannot walk the other side because the walled garden meets the road direct in pools of spangled tarmac after rain; the open gutter choking up with leaves.2016 January 16, Sarah Howe, “The Saturday poem: The Walled Garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry walled garden
• He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.2005 December 8, Owen Gibson, “Past lives bring Paxman to tears”, in The Guardian. From the entry charlady
• Before I could loose the choking strap from her neck, she stood quite dead at the edge of my farthest field, her eyes popping and her tongue aloll.2000, Emily Barton, The Testament of Yves Gundron, page 7. From the entry aloll
• Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47. From the entry yellow
• Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XVIII, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co.…. From the entry stricture

Meaning of choking

1. noun The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
2. noun The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
3. noun The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

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Questions about choking in a sentence

How do you use choking in a sentence?

Choking is used as a noun. For example: “The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.”

What is a short sentence with choking?

“Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.”

What does choking mean?

Choking means the process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.