choked

How To Use choked In A Sentence

• The air was choked with smoke and fury, the noise deafening, the attacking fierce. Times, Sunday Times
• ‘You must be joking,’ I wanted to say, but choked on my words as I looked at the moving conveyer and spotted my long-awaited weather-beaten backpack.
• Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
• A choked sob caught in her throat, and she brought a hand up to her mouth as her eyes filled with tears that spilled over onto her reddened cheeks.
• Shrugging, he pushed open the door to the bar and almost choked on the smoke that hung thickly in the air.
• Caleb choked back a gulp and offered up a weak smile.
• They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off.
• And you guys have been so generous I get choked up when I think about it.
• Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days.
• A faint path leads to an old shieling on the hillside, a soft sanctuary that gazes up the length of fjord - like Loch Hourn to where it becomes choked off by tumbling mountain slopes.