CHOKE in a Sentence

choke

 v.  breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; reduce the air supply

1  Now it was painful to have to choke back words for fear of his amused grin.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII

2  Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, panting weight to tired, anxious hearts.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX

3  People cleared their throats, tried to choke down yawns.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV

4  I could hardly speak; my heart was so full that even those words seemed to choke me.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

5  He stopped, with a sort of choke in his voice.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

6  See, I have cried even when the laugh did choke me.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

7  But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke.

Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII

8  It ended suddenly on its highest note with a choke and a gurgle.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST

9  A ghastly stage-fright seized him, his legs quaked under him and he was like to choke.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI

10  "I'm not sorry," protested Jo, with a choke.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN

11  To improve it, we all distinctly heard Jip give two short barks, and receive another choke.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS

12  And if his father is living, may the rascal perish, may he choke to death.

The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV

13  Hot words started to her lips but she choked them back.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

14  Finally the choked town could take care of no more and the overflow of wounded was sent on to the hospitals at Macon and Augusta.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

15  He laughed until he choked, peering at her in the shadows as she sat, stricken dumb, pressing her handkerchief to her mouth.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

1  Too much pudding will choke a dog.

2  They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery.

3  The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf.

4  He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, that he had to keep swallowing, he was so like to choke; and his eyes swam in a blur of water, which overflowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose.

5  The girl talked endlessly and her mother had to choke her off.

6  She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.

7  The smoke from the stove almost choked me.

8  I was almost choked by the heavy smoke.

9  He choked on a particle of food.

10  One young conscript rose with a message of thanks, his voice choked with emotion.

11  The mass of ice choked up the mouth of the stream and ponded back the water.

12  He choked on a piece of bread.

13  As the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.

14  Skies once crowded with storks and herons were empty; drought had pushed farmers to abandon their crops, and dust storms, once rare, choked the air.

15  The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.