choke

Definition:
1. A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.
2. A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.
3. Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.
4. Be too tight; rub or press.
5. Wring the neck of.

Use 'choke' in a sentence:

1. Too much pudding will choke dog.
2. Your research found that high performers are the most likely to choke.
3. Fish and seabirds mistake plastic for food and choke to death.
4. A pile of garbage choked the pipe.
5. He gave a choked cry, flailed his arms wildly for a moment, and then went over the edge.
6. A ghastly stage-fright seized him, his legs quaked under him and he was like to choke.
7. It is like driving your car with the choke out all the time.
8. Kempton made an inarticulate noise at the back of his throat as if he were about to choke.
9. Each year, more than 2, 800 people, mostly children, choke to death.
10. She would break my biscuits in half to be certain I wouldn't choke.
11. I thought I should choke; I could not tell any one, for that would have been ungrateful.
12. She choked up when she began to talk about her mother.
13. They began to choke up in the last innings.
14. The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke.
15. Do bathroom cleaners need to be so harsh that the fumes make me choke?
16. One young conscript rose with a message of thanks, his voice choked with emotion.
17. 'I hate you!' she choked out.
18. Now they're doing what industrialists do best -- finding choke points.
19. Increasing development is leading toward a crisis for the pronghorn, threatening to choke off their passageway.
20. The report could cause a few attendees to choke on their Glühwein.
21. It's enough to make them choke with apoplectic rage.
22. The village's roads are choked with traffic.
23. The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the Wolf.
24. They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery.
25. For saving face Mary had to choke down the manager's insult.
26. He had a terrifying nightmare in which his aunt was trying to choke him.
27. I still feel choked about him leaving.
28. Vehicles choke already crowded roads as car sales go up.
29. Now they're doing what industrialists do best - finding choke points.
30. Other XML processors will choke on such documents.
31. 'Why did Ben do that?' she asked, in a choked voice.
32. The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building where they choked him with his tie.
33. We might be said to choke on our success.
34. That could choke off competition, they say.
35. Choke remittances, and such places will suffer.
36. We try to choke it back but it will burst out and that sounds worse than ever.
37. The coffee was almost too hot to swallow and made him choke for a moment.
38. Small blockages or collapses of the canal would choke the intricate irrigation networks.
39. A small child could choke on the doll's hair.
40. Despair choked her words.
41. His pond has been choked by the fast-growing weed.
42. The plant will soon choke ponds and waterways if left unchecked.
43. The pond was choked with rotten leaves.
44. The city's streets are filthy and choked with exhaust fumes.
45. Waterbirds, for example, can choke on plastic bottle rings and get cut by scrap metal.
46. The brandy made him choke, but it restored his nerve.
47. 'I can't bear it,' he said in a choked voice.
48. Very small toys can choke a baby.
49. He choked out a reply.
50. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.