choke hold
- a variation of chokehold.
Example Sentences
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Can a series disappear for four years and reclaim its choke hold on the culture?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
“I feel like an MMA fighter who keeps getting inflation in a choke hold, waiting for it to tap out, yet it keeps slipping out of my grasp at the last minute,” Waller said.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
During the Gilded Age, farmers came together in an effort to break the railroad companies’ choke hold on food transportation.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
It is the sense of familiar territory made surreal, of easiness gradually becoming a choke hold, that gives “Room” its echoing power.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2019
They just had to hope that the people in town during the quarantine were tired enough of the mine’s choke hold on them to go along with the scheme.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
