Example Sentences
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The resultant film, with its themes of both suppression and oppression, feels chokingly claustrophobic.
From Los Angeles Times
If it smells like chokingly cheap tequila, that’s somehow even better.
From Seattle Times
One hypothesis suggests that chokingly low oxygen levels kept insect diversity from soaring during the gap and that these creatures proliferated only once the life-giving gas increased.
From Scientific American
How did Americans come to view South Korea as this beautiful-skinned Eden, when, until a few decades ago, it was impoverished and chokingly polluted?
From New York Times
The color of smog, chokingly ever-present.
From Seattle Times
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