Choke

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.

See your brain - Choke, choke, choke Watch it drain - Choke, choke, choke See your greed - Choke, choke, choke Watch it breed - Choke, choke, choke Fake, you're falling down Choke, your neck is broken

Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.

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

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:

Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other […]

to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud

This was a Passage, so rugged, so uneven, and choaked with so many Thorns and Briars, that it was a melancholy Spectacle to behold the Pains and Difficulties which both Sexes suffered who walked through it.

But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.

There have been predictions that within a few years all roads within a 17-mile radius of the Airport will be choked.

The waterfall is now a trickle, and the pool is choked with algae and drowned leaves and broken-off branches.

Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

And some [seeds] fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

1697, John Dryden (translator), “The Fifth Pastoral,” lines 55-56, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 22, No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return; But Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn.

I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.

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. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”

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.

Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.

[…] the words choked in his throat.

Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.

A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;

[…] tears choked the utterance of the dame de compagnie, and she buried her crushed affections and her poor old red nose in her pocket handkerchief.

At that I opened my mouth to speak, and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice.

Her laugh got choked by a sob.

Danny let out a soft, half-choked, trembling moan.

Grobstock began to choke with chagrin.

2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 435, Tajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?

[…] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]

I shall run distracted. My rage choaks me.

And my remembrance of them both, choking me, I broke down […] and laid my face in my hands upon the table.

Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.

‘There is the padre!’ Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda.

“The bastards!” he choked. “I hope they are all caught and hanged!”

The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.

Once all the leaves are gone, a hairy little island will remain in the middle of the artichoke. This is the “choke.” A gentleman uses his knife and fork to slice it away, uncovering the delicious artichoke “heart” underneath.