How To Use Choking In A Sentence

Position them on their sides to prevent them from choking on vomitus.
No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
Moreover, scientific studies on choking reveal no deleterious after effects.
The apparatus under consideration was employed in the St. Quentin gas works during the winter of 1881-1882, without giving rise to any obstruction; and, besides, it was found that by its use there might be avoided all choking up of the pipes at the works and the city mains through naphthaline. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882

Weeds were choking the stream.
The footwell was perpetually swamped now, my forearms were pumped from choking the oars in a death grip, and dime-size blisters had begun to well up under the calluses on my palms.
The jelly sweets contain E425 Konjac - a banned additive that could present a choking hazard to children.
This occurrence, called aspiration, may result in choking, coughing and difficulty breathing. Foreign Objects
Billy slapped his knee and guffawed, and he began choking on his pretzel he had shoveled into his mouth. Kari Gremore: An All-American Tea Party
And probably choking back a tear. Times, Sunday Times
A fault means parts of the cap seal could end up in the liquid - causing a choking hazard. The Sun
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Ragged fire from the slug guns ended in a choking cloud of plaster dust and an ear-splitting roar as most of the west wall fell, severed from its foundations by the azoth Silk had received from Doctor Crane and given to Maytera Mint. Exodus From The Long Sun
After having difficulty with choking and spitting up during and after bottle feeds, the parents had turned to a ‘slow-flow’ nipple that they had found in a local department store.
A top police display dog was saved from choking to death by a quick-acting vet and a fast dash in a police car.
Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
Choking agents, such as phosgene and diphosgene, block respiration by damaging the breathing mechanism, which can be fatal. FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support
The story is told without frills and if you find yourself choking with emotion practically all the way through, it doesn't feel faked.
The great actor had serious struggles with choking while at the peak of his career. Times, Sunday Times
This was found to be necessary following the near judicial destruction of a bull mastiff called Buster whose owner had removed his muzzle so that the ill dog could vomit without choking.
Choking agents, such as phosgene and diphosgene, block respiration by damaging the breathing mechanism, which can be fatal. FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support
Choking back my anger, I tried to speak calmly.
A tree-snapping wind storm in May and a worsening drought have dealt more blows, and invasive species such as chinaberry, nandina and ligustrum are choking out native plants. Statesman - AP Sports
I explained everything that happened while choking back the tears.
The air was knocked out of him and as his father began choking him, Dante struggled to breath and get his father off of him at the same time.
The invertebrates are choking fishing nets and poisoning the catch with their toxic stingers, fishers say.
the choking June dust
I wasn't there so I don't know what happened, but keep in mind that "choking up" on the rod reduces the amount of shock absorbance that a rod has. While kayak fishing,I hooked a carp on a Yamamato senko, and after pulling me around the pond,he broke my Ugly Stik and I lost h
He found a dozen people toiling amid choking dust. Times, Sunday Times
And then I muff a change and we're both choking down the smell of clutch.
The “river” itself was more like a sludge channel, and trees hugged at its banks, choking it at impossible angles on either side, looking vaguely as though two armies were facing off with spindly and florid pikes, unsure who would make the first move over the brown, oily runnel between them. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
He continued to keep up the cuckoo sound, trying to laugh, and yet totally unable to accomplish even a cackle, as if some internal force clutched the diaphragm and mocked him, so that his efforts were reduced to a gurgling as in cynanche -- like a dog choking with a rope round his craig, the sounds coming jerking out in barks, and dying away again in yelps and whines. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
A mist began rising from the edges where wall met floor, choking out the breathable atmosphere.
The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The smoke was choking but the worst of it was being carried high into the air.
I am a very lonely at the time the children will look up to the sky, watching the sun, watching the big moon, hope to see the eyes of the neck pain, choking with tears. This is true, children do not lie.
We are being asked once again, to "repackage" Nigeria's rotting corpse as if this would prevent its smell from choking the world. Vanguard News
Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. broncobuster, yeah, I guess some could consider that choking too. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
I spit out the last bit of toothpaste in my mouth, choking back more tears.
I felt as if there was a weight on my chest, choking me.
Many feel a choking sensation as they walk up the stairs. The Sun
This would make the area more accessible and free local villages from choking traffic. The Sun
The blaster is a one inch gray choking hazard which fits perfectly into Tessek's left hand. Epinions Recent Content for Home
But Mom decided soother was a choking hazard.
She said chokingly, `It's too bad you've had to put up with me so long. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
Rather than a repeat of July 2008, where everything just collapsed, it will be this slow-burning monetary tightening," she says, predicting that it will be 2012 before these anti-inflation measures really start to bite, choking off demand in the emerging world and bringing the oil price back down to earth. Still-fragile world economy braced for effects of another oil shock
The show ended up being quite surreal, particularly when after My Coco, the crowd would not stop cheering, seemingly choking up the band and the few longtime fans in the audience.
Afterwards, waving smiley good-byes as the screen door slammed inside the last manure-footed fly of the season, we would pretend this was the most enjoyable and relaxing sojourn ever undertaken by the Midwest kinfolk; who now are worn out, corn-fed, under-financed, and facing several hundred miles of back-breaking, exhaust-choking, bug-splattering, road-hog crowded highways returning home. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 609
Hercules killed the animal by choking it with his bare hands and thereafter wore its skin.
Choking back a sob, he felt his throat constrict.
Chemical agents appear in several types: choking agents that damage lung tissue, blood agents that cause vital organs to shut down, blister agents (also known as vesicants) that damage the skin, and - most lethal - nerve agents.
Small firms are choking to death in a planning process increasingly marked by bureaucratic muddle and delay.
The funnyman had diners laughing so much they were choking on their yellow fin tuna steaks. The Sun
Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
To avoid possible injury do not child chew or teethe on the spout as it may present a choking hazard.
The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations. Choke
They call it choking," three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe said. USATODAY.com - Federer earns Wimbledon semis clash with Hewitt
Usually by eight to ten months, a healthy infant can have finely chopped foods or zwiebacks with minimal likelihood for choking.
She frowned, choking back her spilling tears in disbelief.
‘It was a choking, murderous job,’ says one worker.
The blaster is a one inch long choking hazard that may be held in either hand perfectly well. Epinions Recent Content for Home
The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered.
A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke. The Sun
We don't want cute little bunny rabbits choking on our plastic bottles. The Sun
There can be sudden choking with acute respiratory distress, or there can be delayed symptoms with cough, wheezing, and hemoptysis.
The cutting of the wood and the depasturing of the grasses upon the sand-dunes converted them from solid bulwarks against the ocean to loose accumulations of dust, which every sea-breeze drove farther landward, burying, perhaps, fertile soil and choking up water-courses on one side, and exposing the coast to erosion by the sea upon the other. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
There was a child of my own, and he but a year and a-half old, and he got a quinsy and a choking in the throat and I was holding him in my arms beside the fire, and all in a minute he died. Later Articles and Reviews
Its corridors were engulfed in choking smoke as the fire took hold.
Love wasn't supposed to be this hard, she thought, choking back a sob.
There was once a time when her uncle, Father Girolamo, could not even utter the name of Medici without choking on his own bile, so abhorrent was the legacy of that family to him and his ancestors. The Poet Prince
But persistently high U.S. unemployment and the choking effect it is having on consumption has prompted analysts to trim their growth outlook for remainder of the year, a recent Reuters poll showed.
When his choking became unbearable, our nurse administered a drug to help him relax. Christianity Today
He had us in the palm of his baby-sized hands and instead of choking us in his usual cynicism, he joked with us and stroked us affectionately.
‘They came back, they were back after me again,’ she spoke quickly and rapidly, fumbling for words over the choking of her tears.
He didn't know which way it was, the tire iron or a real accident, blood choking down Jack's throat and nobody to turn him over.
Their failures follow a long line of British sportsmen choking when it counts. The Sun
I am a very lonely at the time the children will look up to the sky, watching the sun, watching the big moon, hope to see the eyes of the neck pain, choking with tears. This is true, children do not lie.
His voice was choking with rage.
Small choking sobs escaped from him as he began to cry.
The smell was of boiling sulphur and choking grey dust, and the blistering heat burnt his face, and soon the ash cloud blinded him too, but still he was not scared.
Suddenly she gave a low, choking moan and began to tremble violently.
Fear gleamed from his malachite eyes and choking his every breath.
Because of ionization, the choking air filled with a sickish sweet ‘electric smell.’
Another passenger convinced her to leave the plane, which was quickly filling with a choking smoke.
But it is perfectly humane, especially if you fall into the category of those who can't stop choking their dogs with the choke-chain collar.
The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.
Daphne was choking back the urge to start sobbing uncontrollably.
What I’m really most interested in is the way in which Django ends up choking himself with phrases like The task must be to destabalise and desacralise gender, Gender cannot be negated in the same way, though the same processes of seizure and transformation growing out of class antagonism, its not enough to talk abstractly of revolution as being the cure-all we must invest our faith in. Internet Anarchist Revision Brigade #2: Django at LibCom on the Stonewall/Bindel affair and the politics of transsexuality
September 8th, 2009 TILA TEQUILA has blasted her American football star boyfriend SHAWNE MERRIMAN - insisting allegations she was "inebriated" prior to his arrest on suspicion of choking and restraining her are false. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The group is focusing on hazardous toys in four categories: toys that present a choking hazard because of small parts; balloons; toxic toys; and scooters.
The choking triggered a cardiac arrest and her brain had been starved of oxygen. The Sun
The sound of choking can be heard. Times, Sunday Times
The riders crouched on the backs of the horses and the bandannas prevented the kicked - up dust from choking the brothers.
Long before we were all fearful and protective and the world was fraught with recalls over choking hazards and worries of childhood diabetes brought on by too much sugar and whole grains were hailed as the new food messiah, the cheerio was the perfect cereal, designed with all of that in mind and more. Archive 2008-01-01
The dull reports of fog-signals had become a part of the metropolitan bombilation, but hitherto the choking mist had not secured Dope
He was groaning in pain and was making a terrible choking noise. The Sun
Even if Bracchi had agreed to take decedent home, decedent choking on an unchewed piece of roast beef was not a reasonably foreseeable risk of stopping for a bite to eat. NY Minute
She hugged her knees to her chest, choking back her sobs.
And Harley laughed, the dry choking laugh of a man who needs that sixtieth tube to finish the day. A MEANS TO EVIL
Anthropologist Peter Freuchen lived among the Eskimos for years and observed the angakok or local medicine man go into trances.1 Freuchen watched Eskimo children who played games choking each other until they lost consciousness. Experiencing the Next World Now
These illiquid assets are choking off the flow of credit that is so vitally important to our economy. Times, Sunday Times
Kirby turned her face away from Paul, tears and choking sobs shaking her body violently.
Three barges, smothered in floury dust, were being unloaded of their cargoes of powdered felspar by a multitude of coughing men, each guiding a little truck; the dust filled the place with a choking mist, and turned the electric glare yellow. When the Sleeper Wakes
Now I was knifeless in Japan, trying to get a long sliver of very tender, very expensive beef from my bowl to my mouth without either choking or dropping it in my lap. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
Grainy items, such as ground beef or rice, may irritate the pharynx and cause choking.
Her milk was flowing straight into her baby's lungs, turning him blue and choking him as he fought to breathe.
Homogenisation prevents the glug of cream choking the top of the carton.
The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.
If the person vomits or bleeds from the mouth, turn the person on his or her side to prevent choking.
A few days to go and it is shrouded in choking smoke. The Sun
She hears the buttheads in the cheap seats say she's choking under pressure.
If, on the other hand, the patient initially experiences coughing, choking, or vomiting, or if the ingestion is intentional, referral to a health care facility for evaluation is necessary. 11 Hydrocarbon Ingestion
Old Louis, feeble and doddering, choking on his own spit.
Ted faced the assembly, a deep pain in his chest, blinding headache behind his eyes, and a choking bitter lump in his throat.
He gulped for help after choking on a big piece of meat
Bosses said that the dummy's outer casing can become detached and cause a choking hazard. The Sun
-- In case of Choking, a violent slap with the open hand between the shoulders of the sufferer will often effect a dislodgment. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
She also warns that meddling by ministers risks costing jobs and choking economic growth. The Sun
Water was dribbled into her mouth and she turned her head to the side choking it back out.
After climbing down the ladder, I stood standing in the tunnel choking back my tears.
Don't wait until the pain is excruciating, but don't wuss out and tap before the arm is straight or the choke is actually choking either.
We call it choking and put it down to weakness of character. Times, Sunday Times
Balfour slammed his canary-yellow, industrial vacuum truck into gear and roared after the varmint in a cloud of choking brown dust.
Marine life sometimes mistake the bags for food and wind up choking to death.
In Levenshulme hundreds of homeowners were warned to remain indoors and keep doors and windows shut after clouds of choking black smoke from a fire at a tyre depot swept across the area.
Philo said "How do the contributors here arrive at their confident, not to say chokingly indignant, conclusions about climate change when so much science is implicated from so many different disciplines? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Or if I would not even try to resist and just smoke the tires barrelling my way in, to cross the valley in record time, without taking a breath the whole way across, exhilarated and choking back a scream, chased by ghosts who tried and failed. The natural beauty of desolate West Texas surrounding Marfa. | clusterflock
Then I heard a choking noise and when I came into the lounge I found Lee stuck under the chair which was in its normal upright position.
That dust creates choking fogs and coats everything in a yellowy dirt. Times, Sunday Times
The choking triggered a cardiac arrest and her brain had been starved of oxygen. The Sun
That fear stems from moves by four of the world's largest drug makers to begin choking off supplies to Canadian pharmacies which reimport drugs to American consumers.
But the landscape, in its first sweet leafiness, is so alive with ploughing and sowing and all the natural tasks of spring, that the war scars seem like traces of a long-past woe; and it was not till a bend of the road brought us in sight of Gerbéviller that we breathed again the choking air of present horror. Fighting France
I am a very lonely at the time the children will look up to the sky, watching the sun, watching the big moon, hope to see the eyes of the neck pain, choking with tears. This is true, children do not lie.
Though it could pull one car, smoke from the diminutive machine drifted through the car, choking out the passengers until an extra-tall smokestack was applied.
In fact, they do live underground in pitch-dark burrows where their air, from a human point of view, can contain chokingly little oxygen, toxic carbon dioxide levels and a perpetual stench of ammonia. Researchers try to understand naked mole rats' resistance to cancer
But she was almost choking with emotion.
Survivors may complain of tremors, choking sensations, or rapid heartbeat. Trauma and Recovery
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
I am a very lonely at the time the children will look up to the sky, watching the sun, watching the big moon, hope to see the eyes of the neck pain, choking with tears. This is true, children do not lie.
Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
He was screaming, his high-pitched wails piercing the clouds of choking plaster dust that were swirling around. Times, Sunday Times
A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke. The Sun
If you use too much, it can numb the back of your baby's throat and weaken his gag reflex (which helps keep him from choking on his saliva).
These illiquid assets are choking off the flow of credit that is so vitally important to our economy. Times, Sunday Times
With a quick burst of theatrical grace she pushed past Kelley and ran back upstairs, choking back the ‘tears’.
His breath stank so bad of Jack Daniels that it was choking me.
Watching this film made a sizable part of our inner child die horribly, choking to death on his own stickle-bricks. Miss Puerto Rico Possibly Telling Whoppers About The Pepper Spray
The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
I swallowed a fly and was choking and gipping, nearly sick, just couldnt get it down ... must have been pretty big! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
The cord pulled tight, choking off Luca's breath.
The memory of the Holocaust ought to increase our scepticism about politicians: instead we have to suffer Tony Blair on the evening news employing his hammiest just-choking-back-the-tears voice to point the moral lessons he wants us to learn. Archive 2005-01-01
If inhaled, cadmium dust causes dryness of the throat, choking, headache, and pneumonia-like symptoms.
He was choking with emotion.
Every wind filled these level and threatened to seal the place fast; but furiously the "rotaries" attacked the choking mass, slowly it was whirled aside, and onward flowed that steady stream of supplies. The Iron Trail
It can aggravate asthma and bronchitis and cause coughing, choking and impaired lung function, particularly in people who exercise.
I had hoped you would find your son much sooner. your incompetence seems to have been overlooked by his creepyness, the emperor palpaltine, but i assure you it has not been overlooked by the many anikin skywalker fans everywhere who were emmensly saddened by your fall to the dark side and your emmenent and unaviodable choking of your beloved Padme Keep On Darthin' In The Free World
I'm choking out ugly, gasping sobs.
Sorrow and rage, shame, and his honors pride, Choking his soule, madly compeld him raue, Vntil his rage with vigor did confound His heauie hart; and left him in a swound. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Fold in a heaping helping of zany comic business and you get a show that is not just amusing but wildly, chokingly funny. Love Among the Redwoods
Sally-Anne was almost choking between rage and fear.
Let us tend to our gardens with diligence, and keeping the weeds from choking the plants!
I was having trouble choking back the hysterical screams that wanted to arise from my throat, as well.
We are then asked to believe that each prisoner, even as he was choking on those rags, climbed up on his washbasin, slipped his head through the noose, tightened it, and leapt from the washbasin to hang until he asphyxiated. Matthew Yglesias » Death at Gitmo
Check the link and you'll see a picture of the ol Sar'major choking back a couple tears.
Violet rushed over, choking back a scream of instinctive terror.
When Lyons regained consciousness, he was lying facedown on the ground, choking, gasping for air, and spitting up blood and dirt. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
They glimpsed the blood sliding frothily out of the jockey's mouth, choking him as the sharp ends of broken ribs tore his lungs apart. Shattered
He knows when to make me cry, when that lump in my throat is choking me and I am unable to release my emotions.
The Elephant man just had me in floods of tears with the sad nobility of Merrick's death, whereas Menace's uber-bleak ending gutted me so much that I ended up choking back tears.
Factor in other magazines, fall catalogs choking the mailbox and spreads in local newspapers and it adds up to stylish overstimulation.
Lucy grabbed for it; she was choking with the grip on her throat.
There was a queer choking sound from Nora and she walked quickly down to the other end of the drawing room and earnestly fixed her gaze upon a portrait of one of the judge's ancestors, until she could gain control of her risibles. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
It is to be regretted that she declines to do so: I might finally have received a proper answer to the question with which I started (in genuine puzzlement) - How do the contributors here arrive at their confident, not to say chokingly indignant, conclusions about climate change when so much science is implicated from so many different disciplines? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
I've scanned the document and it's choking with phrases like this, which presumably make sense in the heads of officials grappling unenviably with the programmes.
From _lolium_ the term Lollard given in reproach to the Waldenses, and the followers of Wickliffe, indicated that they were pernicious weeds choking and destroying the pure wheat of the gospel. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
A top police display dog was saved from choking to death by a quick-acting vet and a fast dash in a police car.
The recovery position ensures that an unconscious person maintains an open airway that the tongue cannot be swallowed, and any vomit or fluid will not cause choking.
British haute cuisine is currently at risk from choking itself to an early death on a diet of squiggles, blobs, foams, and purees.
His voice was choking with rage.
He beamed again as Ali, practically choking on his own saliva, fell forward into a group of pupils.
The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.
The sharp edges of the broken chest clip create a risk of a skin laceration and the fractured components of the chest clip may present a small parts/choking hazard. Britax recalls 19,601 Chaperone infant car seats due to brittle chest clip
This neckband is choking the cat
According to the law-enforcement official, Ms. Hussein's husband told police that his wife had been recovering from a recent gastric-bypass surgery and began choking in her sleep and coughing up blood shortly after midnight. Man in Bronx Shot to Death
Choking: Smoke continues to billow from the Icelandic volcano today as it was revealed British airspace will reopen tomorrow Home | Mail Online
Choking back my anger, I tried to speak calmly.
A strong headwind can pick up the fine dustlike sand in a blast that is blinding and choking. Obama’s Wars
The pungent, choking smell of sulphur filled the air.
When his choking became unbearable, our nurse administered a drug to help him relax. Christianity Today
Labour has argued that the fiscal retrenchment is choking off the recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Even as I tried to dodge thunder exploded in my face, burning pain and another hammer and dirt and dust was choking me while I gasped for a breath that wouldn't come.
Suddenly she gave a low, choking moan and began to tremble violently.
The capital, Nairobi, is choking on uncontrolled immigration.
Jenni turned round to find James laughing so much that his eyes were watering and was now on to the stage of hysterical silent laughter that makes the laugher look like they are choking.
Choking back further sobs that I had kept in check, I swallowed my bitterness at the injustice of it all and continued to scrub, pressing into the carpeting hard, digging in, trying to erase every blotch, every bit of impurity from the rug.
The pungent, choking smell of sulphur filled the air.
There was a kind of heady fetor in the air, and Alaine tried very hard not to breathe too much of it for fear of choking on it and giving her whereabouts away.

How To Use Choking In A Sentence

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