choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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The roads were then thronged with travelers; the city was choke-full of strangers; not a bed to be had, unless long pre�ngaged, for love or money.
From Jacques Bonneval by Manning, Anne
A visit to the village in search of a lodging revealed its true state—i.e., that it was choke-full and dirty.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord
“She is worth a good deal, sir, for both she and the cutter are choke-full of loot.”
From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by Rainey, W. (William)
To say truth, I was so choke-full o’ coffee an’ buns, an’ etceterers, that I don’t believe I could ha’ swallowed another drop o’ liquor.
From The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
But the halting-place is choke-full of other travellers on their way to the same fair, and neither at inn nor in private house is there any room whatever, though there is no lack of "provant."
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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