Choked Sentence Examples

Jenn almost choked on her laugh.

It was silent aside from her choked gasps.

His fury, pain, and sorrow choked her.

She choked on a half-sob, half-laugh.

She choked back a sob.

She choked down a mouthful of food.

Mr. Tim uttered a choked curse.

Hours later, baked by the sun and choked with dust, Pete finally called a halt for the day.

He gazed down into her eyes and his voice was choked with emotion.

She nearly choked on the sandwich, and washed it down with some coffee.

Brandon nearly choked on his tea, and Mrs. Marsh stared at her plate, not completely hiding a smile.

She twisted to pull her feet onto her bed and choked back a scream.

Alex choked on his coffee and set the cup back on the sill.

She choked down a sharp response and met his gaze.

The principal features are the stoppage of the vessels and consequent wilting of the shoots; as a rule the cut vessels on transverse sections of the shoots appear brown and choked with a dark yellowish slime in which bacteria may be detected, e.g.

Between himself and a son of his instructor there sprang up a close and affectionate friendship, and, unlike so many of the exquisite attachments of youth, this was not choked by the dust of life, nor parted by divergence of pursuit.

I felt the hot breath from the engine on my face, and the smoke and ashes almost choked us.

She choked it back quickly, appalled she was able to find humor at such a time.

His gaze shot back to her and he choked on his drink, spilling it on his suit.

It seemed then as if every pore of life were choked, and Christendom must be stifled and smothered in the fatal embrace."

Other people may feel choked by the power peer pressure has in their lives.

The ditch was choked, the gates were unprotected; the tumbled mass of irregular mud buildings which constituted the city clung tightly to the walls; there were no gun emplacements.

The Bannockburn was choked with the fallen, and it was only by hard spurring that Edward and his guards reached Dunbar, whence he sailed to Berwick.

The tributary streams get choked at the mouth and assist the process of deposition.

The Scamander is choked with slain - rises against Achilles, who is saved by Hephaestus.

The fishery is of ancient importance; at the old towns of Falsterbo and SkanOr, south of Malmo, thousands of fishermen were employed until the harbours became choked in 1631, and the fish were a valuable item in the Hanseatic commerce.

Elizabeth to collapse, having choked on the sixpence in Jill's home-made Christmas pud.

Humane Society officials say Kenneth Thomas, 62, choked, punched and threw a two-and-a-half year old pug out a second story window.

This stream can be followed to a terminal choke where it sinks in a choked rift.

A nation choked with peoples and cultures, riven with almost seismic contrasts and contradictions.

But my child " For a moment he seemed choked, and a great sob rose in his throat.

Check regularly to make sure the wick has not become choked or dirty.

It is sufficiently sheltered, but by the negligence of the Turks the sand has been suffered to accumulate until it has been gradually almost choked up. The other harbour is larger, and also in a bad condition; here small ships may anchor, and are sheltered from the west winds, though they are exposed to the north and north-east winds.

Centuries of neglect followed, and the ancient port was almost choked up, though the value of the fisheries saved the town from utter decay.

Its general aspect is that of rugged slopes of bare rock, seamed with the beds of dry torrents choked with gravel (see further Turkestan, West).

I locked the dining-room door, and proceeded to eat my breakfast, though the food almost choked me.

Boris read 'Poor Liza' aloud to her, and more than once interrupted the reading because of the emotions that choked him.

Natasha did not change her position, but her whole body heaved with noiseless, convulsive sobs which choked her.

Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh.

There was no wind, and the men choked in that motionless atmosphere.

But my child For a moment he seemed choked, and a great sob rose in his throat.

Turnips are sometimes grown, but suffer greatly from being choked by the natural grasses produced by superabundant moisture.

The poor sandpiper cannot pipe He 's all wheezed up and croaked He 's swallowed so much sand His blinking carburetors choked !

Williams allegedly harassed and choked a 19-year-old waitress hard enough to leave bruises on her neck while attempting to steal a kiss on March 18.

The judges were a bit disappointed in Richard's performance during the finale and when asked what happened, he commented on how he "choked" and that was the contributing factor to his lackluster dishes.

Developed after the company's founder lost her beloved dog Chinook to a tragic strangulation accident, the KeepSafe collar is designed to prevent a dog from being choked to death should his collar become stuck on an object.

There are some small parts that could be easily choked on by a toddler or younger child.

Do not purchase something with small parts that could be eaten or choked on.

However, one day at lunch as he was eating pork chops, he choked on a poorly chewed morsel and died from lack of oxygen.

It's often difficult to talk about the experience without becoming teary-eyed and choked with emotion.

She didn't think anyone heard her choked words.

Traci choked on a half-laugh, half-sob and accepted the packet of tissues.

The lights were on, but shadows crawled from the corners and choked the lights until they were shriveled, glowing orbs.

The two brothers stared at each other, and she choked back a sob, joy and horror flying through her.

The town was choked with visitors, some already staking out their spots with folding chairs to view the later festivities—the last hurrah of the holiday.

She choked back something between a laugh and a sob.

Carmen choked out in a voice that didn't sound like her own.

Deidre choked back a sob.

She choked back a sob and saw the glint of starlight off a knife on the ground.

Then he added, "Or, perhaps he used it, to stuff it in her mouth and silence her while he choked her to death."

Connor met his eyes with grave emotion and barely choked out, "Deal."

He choked, "She's a werewolf."

She pushed herself up, reaching into a pocket for a food and water cube.  Gabriel took her arm and pulled her to her feet.  She nearly choked on the cubes and swallowed them whole, struggling to keep up with the death-dealer as he darted into the forest.

The hills and farmlands gradually turned to inner suburbia and then to the harshness of urban streets, choked tightly with the crush, smells and sounds of the city.

Dean nearly choked on a string bean.

The terrain was rough, covered with brush choked ravines and sharp granite bluffs.

She choked back a sob and wrapped her arms around Darian, pulling him as close as she could.

She gazed up into his dark eyes and spoke in a voice choked with emotion.

She choked back another laugh then turned her attention to the photographer.

Today, she'd give anything just to have Ashley back, no matter how long it took her to fix the vacuum cleaner after it choked on the beads.

Along this part of its course the river is apt to be choked with reeds and, except where bordered by lines of palm trees, the channel loses itself in lakes and swamps.

As the mouth is choked with sandbanks, goods are disembarked at Mariinsk and carried by train (9 m.) to Alexandrovsk at the head of the Gulf of Tartary.

The harbour had two large basins, now almost choked with sand.

The initial diameter of the well drilled from the bottom of this pit is in some instances as much as 36 in., bore-holes of the larger size being preferred, as they are less liable to become choked, and admit of the use of larger bailers for raising the oil.

There he was joined by the Austrian advance guard, and together they decided to accept battle - indeed they had no alternative, as the roads in rear were so choked with traffic that retreat was out of the question.

The harbour, once the best on the northern coast of the Corinthian Gulf, is now almost entirely choked up, and is accessible only to the smallest craft.

One consequence of this is that the bed of the river just below Hamburg is obstructed by a bar, and still lower down is choked with sandbanks, so that navigation is confined to a relatively narrow channel down the middle of the stream.

It entered a creek which was navigable for a considerable distance, and formed a subsidiary harbour for the City, but by the 14th century this was becoming choked with refuse, and though an attempt was made to clear it, and wharves were built in 1670, it was wholly arched over in 1 7371765 below Holborn Bridge.

Like the Bahr-el-Jebel the Bahr-el-Ghazal is liable to be choked by sudd.

He set the example of the unending discussions in committee and boundless minute writing which finally choked the Spanish administration.

Down, Ireland, about 1836, and appeared in England in 1841, spreading through the country in ponds, ditches' and streams, which were often choked with its rank growth.

E.S.E., and separated by high intermont valleys, which are choked with disintegrated material and divided into a chequered pattern of self-contained, shallow lacustrine basins.

Hard rock (mostly granite and crystalline schists, with red sandstone in places) appears only in the transverse glens, which are often choked with their debris in the form either of gravel-and-shingle or loose blocks of stone or both.

In 1699 Batavia was visited by a terrible earthquake, and the streams were choked by the mud from the volcano of Gunong Salak; they overflowed the surrounding country and made it a swamp, by which the climate was so affected that the city became notorious for its unhealthiness, and was in great danger of being altogether abandoned.

But it did nothing for the southern lakes, so that a further system of dikes was recommended in preference, in 1614, by the Dutch engineer Adrian Boot; it was inadequate for its work and, not being lined with masonry, it was liable to be choked by falls.

In water-cooled condensers it is usual to arrange that the water passes through a large number of small pipes contained in a larger one through which the gas flows, and as it constantly happened that condenser pipes became choked by naphthalene, the so-called reversible condenser, in which the stream of gas may be altered from time to time and the walls of the pipes cleaned by pumping tar over them, is a decided advance.

The system of irrigation formerly carried on by these canals rendered the plain of Kazvin one of the most fertile regions in Persia; now most of the canals are choked up. The city has a population of about 50,000 and a thriving transit trade, particularly since 1899 when the carriage road between Resht and Teheran with Kazvin as a half-way stage was opened under the auspices of the Russian "Enzeli-Teheran Road Company."

But all over the savage world, especially in Africa, spirit worship has sprung up and choked the All-Father, who, however, in most savage regions, abides as a name, receiving no sacrifice, and, save among the Masai, seldom being addressed in prayer.

There are two harbours, an outer, facing the town, protected by the island of Sirah, but now partially choked with mud; and an inner, called Aden Back-bay, or, by the Arabs, Bandar Tawayih, on the western side of the peninsula, which at all periods of the year admits vessels drawing less than 20 ft.

The town was choked with visitors, some already staking out their spots with folding chairs to view the later festivities—the last hurrah of the holiday.

Effie choked a tad on her cookie at the enthusiasm of her rambling and asked for a glass of milk.

Heat waves distorted the side of a small bluff and water surged from its shiny black ledges and plunged into small pool choked by watercress.

He succumbed to fear and choked up.

A shallow adit driven from near the old reducing works on the South connects with these workings, its mouth is however choked.

A choked bedding plane leads off from here at -1 m depth and this could possibly be dug.

To the right of the chamber above a large block leads to a very wide bedding plane which is choked after 40m.

A choke was pushed at the south end of Coral Chamber, to a 50 foot pot which was choked at the bottom.

However, I won't guarantee that it is not (a) solidly choked, (b) collapsed anyway.

Their return in 1984 came as America choked on the twin grip of Reaganomics and the Yuppie culture.

They found themselves in a chamber of large dimensions, with several choked inlets.

His opponent flailed wildly and then fell limp - the fight nigh-on choked out of him.

A man had choked to death on his own vomit.

Pierre choked, his face puckered, and he turned hastily away, went back to his trap muttering something to himself as he went, and took his seat.

Tila claims Shawne choked and restrained her.

Elevator Love Letter - Derek proposes to Meredith in an elevator while Cristina is nearly choked by a PTSD patient, Owen.

The thought must have occurred to Yancey as well, and he reassured Tammy in a voice choked with suppressed humor.

Towards the foothills of the Caucasus they are clothed with thick forests, while in the west they merge into the steppes of south Russia or end in marshy ground, choked with reeds and rushes, in the delta of the Kuban.

The small port is almost choked up with sand and ruins.

She gurgled and choked, engulfed in terror.

The road gradually narrowed and climbed through hills choked with brush and huge oak trees.

Such drainage as had at one time existed was allowed to get choked up, giving rise to typhoid fever of a virulent type.