Example Sentences

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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

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

"I am about to be guilty of a base deed," she said; "and yet, I had so strongly resolved—but I am choking!"

From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Feuillet, Octave

"Open the window," he gasped; "I am choking to death."

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

"I am choking here!—I wish to leave!—take me away!"

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri