am choking
- present progressive of choke (1st person singular).
Example Sentences
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I get enough air then, but the cold raw air freezes the sides of my throat and blood vessels burst and my throat generates mucus and soon I am choking on it.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
He starts to cry, and I am choking, too, crying for an infant who never existed, the child of a woman I never knew.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
The atmosphere of the Court is so exquisitely rarefied and refined that I am choking in it.
From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
I can't breathe—I am choking in this room!
From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes
"Nurse Rollet," she said on reaching the nurse's, "I am choking; unlace me!"
From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx
