How To Use Choked In A Sentence
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The air was choked with smoke and fury, the noise deafening, the attacking fierce.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘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.
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Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
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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.
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Shrugging, he pushed open the door to the bar and almost choked on the smoke that hung thickly in the air.
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Caleb choked back a gulp and offered up a weak smile.
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They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off.
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And you guys have been so generous I get choked up when I think about it.
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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.
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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.
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Using stable sea kayaks, we'll explore a remote corner of this region, search for wildlife in sheltered coves, and watch glaciers calve into ice-choked bays.
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Her voice was choked with emotion.
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Cattails and bulrushes will replace the invasive phragmites that have choked the waterways.
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And already the site of the house is undiscoverable, the location of the stone walls may be deduced from the configuration of the landscape, and I am renewing the battle, putting in angora goats to browse away the brush that has overrun Haska's clearing and choked Haska's apple trees to death.
Chapter 37
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The streets were so choked with sellers and shoppers alike that oftentimes only one lane of the street was passable for cars.
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It's hard to say this, but just at the time we hoped you would shine under the bright lights of NBC, ESPN, and ABC, you choked.
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He was suddenly choked up with emotion and tears welled in his eyes.
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Rumour has it that he nearly choked, but he noticed that a dark ring of dirt developed on the other side of the hanky and went on to develop the first machine.
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He didn't mean for it to, but a choked sob escaped from his throat.
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People were choked with emotion from the start; they had come back to the spot where they had seen brothers, sisters, parents and friends die.
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I drunkenly choked on the beer I was drinking at the time and felt suddenly sexually unsure about not only men in general but women in general as well.
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Suddenly he spat out water and choked; he inhaled the air deeply and opened his eyes.
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Man, I almost choked on my shreddies, that is SUCH a classic totally ignorant American point of view!
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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A choked sob rose in his throat.
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One young conscript rose with a message of thanks, his voice choked with emotion.
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The best and worst matches, the finest players, the stars who choked… and the man who played without a putter.
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The young man made a choked coughing sound and sputtered something that sounded like rot in Hell.
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My father and his buddies would have choked on their boilermakers to hear it put that way, but would have appreciated the tone.
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And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time, these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves, especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons.
An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
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One young conscript rose with a message of thanks, his voice choked with emotion.
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A few years ago, Fremont Street was choked with cars, cabs, exhaust fumes and even a few gamblers.
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The road leading to the town centre was choked up with traffic.
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The sight of people dimmed, and their voices choked with tears of disillusion, greed, envy and pride
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The noxious weed of clericalism has choked the development of a people's church.
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A few folks in the class were indeed too sore to ride by the latter part of the clinic, and the rest of us choked down over-the-counter painkillers and secretly admired our own saddle-sore knees and thighs.
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I fought back the tears that were threatening to cascade down my rouged cheeks and the words of greeting I had so carefully crafted were choked as they sputtered from my mouth.
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There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the Doctor's [i.e. her stepfather's room], but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.
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I brought up all this phlegm and spit into my mouth, and at first it was so, so foul I nearly choked.
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Perhaps just a tiny ridge of rock high in the snow-choked cwm.
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His adoption of a soldier's guise gives the usually scrubbed detective a much grungier look, making him seem less an interloper than an authentic member of the poverty-choked netherworld he's infiltrating in his search for the gun.
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streets choked with traffic
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He'd choked on his own vomit after a session of sniffing aerosols.
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And darting upon the paper, with eyes bedimmed, and voice choked with emotion, he read the whole document from the last letter to the first.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
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My feeling is that a lot of older surfers would have much more fun riding bodyboards recreationally rather than struggling along with a longboard in surfer-choked point breaks.
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It's cool and clean, with none of the jaded heat and dirtiness that will fill it once the streets become choked with traffic.
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The American boys who for weeks in 2005 in Iraq shared with me their army-issue meals, their menthol cigarettes, their water, and their heartbreak in an armored humvee5 with a faulty air conditioner—once, on my thirtieth birthday, it choked all of us with sour Freon fumes—write me occasionally.
Peace Meals
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Today we have forests choked with small trees, which burn easily and act as ‘ladder fuels,’ carrying fire into the crowns of surrounding larger trees.
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Franken choked up repeatedly as he related the stories involving his father, whom he obviously loved.
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Glick, who had four months left on his three-year hitch, choked up and sniffled when he read a statement asking for mercy.
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I use a 16 ga Parker choked cyl & Lmod my favorite losd - Activ Hull, Rem209P primer, 21.0 grn SR-7625, activ G32 wad pushing 1oz of #6 Bismuth 1220fps @~9200 psi. squeaky clean, easy shooting, deadly load.
Rethinking Pheasant Loads
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Brianna choked again, and I hastily placed an ashet on the table in front of her, just in case.
Drums of Autumn
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But, at least a couple of them lost control over their emotions and let their distress reflect in their choked voices and misty eyes.
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A protest rose to her lips, but she choked it back.
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His father choked him off for being drunk.
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Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet.
Finnegans Wake
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Its systems couldn't handle rapidly increasing volume, and it also choked on an acquisition.
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She craned her head slightly to the side as a husky voice, choked with emotion, whispered into her ear.
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Her husband Jack, who attended the ceremony on her behalf, was choked with emotion as he collected her award.
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It was filled with a strongly spiced red wine; he drank directly from the spout, until he choked and tears burned his eyes.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The back room was choked with old carpets, old clothes, mould, mushrooms and unfamiliar smells.
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The pond was choked with rotten leaves.
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As much as it choked me, I needed to emulate at least some of his attitudes, even as I refused his harsh techniques.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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He choked on a particle of food.
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He exhaled the smoke and through the haze his eyes rested on the day's end; gulls scraped the underside of a grey sky, cormorants pierced leaden waters to emerge gullet-choked with fish.
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Revisionists would say that the romanticism of the chroniclers' reverie for that era was coloured by nostalgia for the generation lost in the first world war that choked their critical senses but the glory of Cardus's prose outweighs almost all quibbles.
VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
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Nevertheless, I obediently choked down a half - cup of it.
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Dima smiled and grabbed Coral by his shirt collar, dragging so close to her that he almost choked on her rancid breath.
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His luggage trolley was nearby and he had been choked to death.
The Sun
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She choked her anger
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Whether it's a sedge-rimmed Alberta pond or a Georgia slough choked with catbrier, pocket water that has been created by beaver, nature's most impressive engineers, provides intimate, up-close-and-personal duck hunting.
Tips, Tactics, and Gear for Beaver Pond Ducks
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The words choked me and I was lost in a frenzy of emotions.
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The shallow trenches were choked with the dead and wounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bramwell, rising to respond to the toast, followed his mother's gaze and choked.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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The shallow trenches were choked with the dead and wounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole of central London is not entirely choked by noxious fumes, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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Honey chortled, whapping Lily on the back, who almost choked on her food.
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The pieces fell into place, all at once, and I again choked on the dregs of my now-cold latte.
The case of the 500-mile email « Isegoria
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A strange low-pitched choked hiss came from behind the huge ornately carved seat back.
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She choked to death on a fish bone.
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What happens if that army thinks its lifeblood is choked off?
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One alternate juror choked with grief and accepted the water and tissues from a concerned court clerk.
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He that had deserved strangling was either drowned in some river, or choked by a squinancy [angina].
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Briggs was so much choked by emotion that she could hardly take a morsel of meat.
Vanity Fair
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Local people say the pond is slowly dying as the perennial spring which fed the waters has been choked by a slab laid for the construction of a building.
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Every green space is choked with discarded cans of Coors Light, wads of toilet paper, Frito-Lay bags.
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My heart leapt into my throat and I practically choked on it.
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(to save himself from being choked with dust) he patrolled a little cinderous beat he established for the purpose, without taking his eyes from the diggers, he still stumped to the tune: He's GROWN too FOND of
Our Mutual Friend
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In an emotionally choked voice, Mr. Bilheimer said half the people who figured in the film were already dead.
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The police were holding up the traffic and she glimpsed Regent Street choked with stationary buses.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Aresanjura laughed, a harsh croaking sound like the death rattle from a blood-choked throat.
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When Rory McIlroy choked in the final round of the US Masters two months ago, throwing away a four-stroke lead and finishing tied for 15th place after a humiliating round of 80, the golf obituarists were instantly on his case.
In praise of … Rory McIlroy | Editorial
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She choked down a bowl of cooked rice.
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Nobody actually choked on their tea, but the looks of consternation reminded me that prison has been a touchy subject for a long time.
Times, Sunday Times
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She nearly choked as the overwhelming scent of pine needles hit her.
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As much as it choked me, I needed to emulate at least some of his attitudes, even as I refused his harsh techniques.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I should think some of them choked on their vol-au-vents when he said it.
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He actilly sneezed for the matter of ten minutes -- he seemed half choked with the flaff and stuff, that came out with him like a cloud.
The Clockmaker
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Then he manfully choked down four or five pieces -- when I say "manfully," it's because I've discovered that most men, if hungry enough, will eat just about anything you put in front of them.
Running With Quills
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The thick smell of human decay choked volunteers who dragged the bits out of the metal container.
Times, Sunday Times
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He choked down his rage
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He choked up while describing a little boy who had been deceived by a charlatan faith healer.
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“Hast thou then two names?” enquired she, and he replied (and indeed his voice was choked with tears), “Yes; my name aforetime was Al – As’ad, the most happy, but now it is Al-Mu’tarr — Miserrimus.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A WOMAN choked to death in front of her horrified husband after a mouthful of Indian curry ‘went down the wrong way’, an inquest heard.
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-- When a person is drowned, strangled, or choked in any way, what is called asphyxia occurs.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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Before us the defile was a slit which was half choked by rock falls from above.
Year of the Unicorn
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'How dare you!' she said, her voice choked with rage.
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Over a decade later, Schmid's film makes clear that for the vast majority of Germans weeds in the garden have long since choked any budding flowers.
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When an extremity has been invaded by bacteria and the blood supply is choked off, the limb begins to putrefy.
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The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves, starlings blew about the place like avian litter.
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Some of them, unequally expanded, strained and twisted; its grate-bars and fire-box had become choked with "clinkers," and its tubes charged with coke.
The Iron Horse
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The pipe was choked by cotton.
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Like the Arizona desert, the Huygens landing site has steep hills, arroyos or dry gullies choked with sediment, and dry flat valleys where liquid pools.
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The banks were choked with willow and tamarisk, which I occasionally had to crawl under on my belly.
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But there were tears in my eyes and I couldn't finish it because I got so emotionally choked, and I just had to sit down.
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The wicked criminal feelings of which I have spoken, those uncomprehended impulses of rage rose up in me ... choked me.
Dream tales and prose poems
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Like the Bahr-el-Jebel the Bahr-el-Ghazal is liable to be choked by sudd.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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I beamed my approval and choked down the lump in my throat.
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The applicant was so choked with excitement at the acceptance notification that he could hardly bring out a goodbye.
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A toddler from Essex nearly choked after swallowing a lozenge included in a mailshot.
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Of these, the first are again choked with sand; the second are considered unsafe; and the third only is accessible to travellers.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Cape Clarence stood out bold and clear, with a midnight sun behind it: and the light streamed through the different ice-choked channels between Capes Hardwicke and Clarence, throwing up the land, _where there was land_, in strong and dark relief.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
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The man choked and spluttered, but didn't answer.
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He had choked on his own vomit following a drinking binge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked.
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The path had been so choked with weeds it was virtually impassable.
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One alternate juror choked with grief and accepted the water and tissues from a concerned court clerk.
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She choked on a fish bone.
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She choked, and floundered, but only succeeded in taking in more water.
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He choked on a particle of food.
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The manyplus, or omasum (third stomach), frequently becomes so choked up with food that it is hard and dry, and the operation of the digestive organs is very seriously impaired.
Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
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He choked on a soya bean and died suddenly.
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The drain was choked up with dirt.
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Stacey choked on the word as it left her mouth, her voice was full of emotion.
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Roads into the village were choked with traffic heading for the ever-popular event, which lined The Borough from end to end.
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Once an arm of the lake, the delta here is today choked with thick stands of invasive tamarisk.
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He choked to death when a fish bone got stuck in his throat.
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The applicant was so choked with excitement at the acceptance notification that he could hardly bring out a goodbye.
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Bob choked, remembering the glimpse of red eyes he had seen.
THREE IN ONE
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Dave continued to tighten his screw till abruptly the engine choked, backfired and died.
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That night she choked down a meal barely warmed before the fire was doused.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Terror suddenly hit her like an iron arrow in the breastbone and her throat seized up and she choked.
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People said I choked, but I just had a bad day on the golf course.
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Corney McVeigh stepped across the ancient threshold and gazed long and searchingly at the face in the darkened parlor; a face seamed and thin with toil and worry, yet infinitely sweet and motherlike to the world-lost man who choked back the tears as he felt again that almost forgotten child-love.
Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road
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She choked, coughing up thin spurts of blood.
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My feeling is that a lot of older surfers would have much more fun riding bodyboards recreationally rather than struggling along with a longboard in surfer-choked point breaks.
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Begala says his pal is "a sensitive guy," and he wasn't surprised when Emanuel choked up while talking about his parents during an East Room ceremony marking his departure.
The oversimplified coverage of 'tough-talking' Rahm Emanuel
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‘The area is already choked with traffic but there is no solution to that in these plans,’ said Mr. Mayling.
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In most of the urban areas, the avenue trees are choked to death as the tree base is completely covered by concrete slabs, leaving little space for aeration.
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Thick smoke choked its capital, Sydney, population 4 million, as strong winds fed the fires surrounding it.
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So satiated were they that they feared they would get choked if they lay flat; they slept sitting up.
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By 4 am Gary Humphreys was dead, having suffered a broken jaw and choked to death on his own blood.
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Again, it took place in northern BC and a rooky copy said it was self-defense because he was being choked.
Who Watches the Watchmen: Police Investigating Themselves « Colleen Anderson
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And the mother of the bride almost choked on her salmon sandwich.
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Ms Lloyd said hoary cress had an extensive root system that choked grain and horticulture crops and pastures.
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And it was when he spoke directly to his supporters, some tearful, some defiant, all deflated, that his voice choked.
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It's the only wedding I've been to (out of a medium-two-digit number) where the groom got choked up.
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His words were choked off by the sudden screams.
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We passed through Chang-kia-wan again, in a solid phalanx with the Sikh sowars around us, thrusting by main force through streets choked with jingal-men and Tiger soldiers who sneered and spat but kept their distance from those razor-sharp lance-heads.
Flashman and the Dragon
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My son, Gengis, choked on his chocolate-raisin oat meal.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Her voice was choked with rage.
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The cripple choked and pushed the plate away.
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The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke.
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The dust-choked blackdamp scrapes at my throat and stings my eyes so that even if there were light I probably couldn't see through the veil of tears.
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He pointed to the straggly, exhaust-choked line of spiny hedging that grew against the railing.
The Priest
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Weeds choked the ground, as a light snow began to fall.
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It is important to remember that many exotics have ‘gotten loose’ in southern landscapes and actually choked out native species in their own habitat.
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If I mulch heavily during the flood season, I end up with a yard full of evergreen boughs and a garden choked with soggy bark.
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The stream was choked up with weeds.
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Whether he was choked with gases, or perished in a quag, or was removed bodily by the Evil
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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The mass of ice choked up the mouth of the stream and ponded back the water.
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He choked back a sharp reply.
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Why did Ben do that?" she asked, in a choked voice.
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When spring finally came, the streams were choked with rotting carcasses.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Brian had felt choked by the town, by his father, and he had had an unappeasable appetite for adventure.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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He gave a choked cry, flailed his arms wildly for a moment, and then went over the edge.
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Bowring reeled, choked, flailed his hands, tried to grab at reality, wherever it was.
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Pierce was drinking hot cider when she said that and he literally almost choked on it hearing what she said.
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The driving was hellacious on those traffic-choked streets, but my uncle always gave us a bonus for the extra hassle, so it wasn't all bad.
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She choked down a bowl of cooked rice.
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Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
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When he and his brothers arrived at Heathrow in 1972 they were set upon by maenadic teenyboppers, who tore clumps of hair from Jermaine's scalp, robbed Michael of a shoe and almost choked him by tugging the opposite ends of his scarf.)
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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The unmistakable, overwhelming miasma of emotion that choked him and even threatened to stifle Rena too… it was guilt.
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The word caught in my throat, and I nearly choked on it.
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As much as I liked Alias throughout its run, the mythos is eventually what choked the show to death, I think.
You Remembered « Gerry Canavan
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
More strange but true facts
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She spluttered and choked on something that caught in her throat.
LOST SUMMER
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To keep plants from being choked, you often have to adjust ties as they grow.
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Provocations include not only the lack of grammar, but highly disjunctive and often obscure use of line breaks which abandon denotative and connotative functions of words in favour of half swallowed or choked sounds.
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The waters choked with slain, the earth bedrenched with blood!
Some Poems
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When it came time for Phil to really coach and tame the egos of Shaq and Kobe, he choked.
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Ichiru choked for a second, and Watz gave him a hard whack on his back before it would go down.
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Fire brigade spokesman Laurent Vibert said the four victims choked to death on the fumes of the fire as they tried to escape from their rooms to the roof of the hotel.
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In gullies choked with dust and infused with the scent of thyme and cordite, the agonies of the wounded haunted the survivors," Mr. Davis writes of the war.
Ascent to Immortality
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A factory worker's family spent a quiet evening at home, all dressed up, in a parlour choked with ornamental plants, under a great silk lampshade.
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The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building where they choked him with his tie.
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The mass of ice choked up the mouth of the stream and ponded back the water.
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Today it is a city, much like other major capitals, choked with traffic and bustling with commerce.
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Federer got away in the end after Nadal choked, but the latter will be richer for the experience.
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He choked on a piece of bread.
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Herodotus is telling of wonders that his friends, and we too, want to hear, that in the tragedies we hear the voice of Sophocles dictating, choked with emotion and tears; that even Roman historians wrote because they had something to tell, and Caesar, dull proser that he is, composed the _Commentaries_ not to provide us with style or grammatical curiosities, but as a record of extraordinary events.
Cambridge Essays on Education
