Example Sentences

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Humans have choked off salmon habitat with dams and culverts.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Eskom has implemented outages for over a decade that have choked economic growth in Africa's most industrialised nation.

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2022

Almost all medicine is imported from China and the last two years of border closures have choked off this supply.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2022

All my Anaheim friends support Valencia, whose mailers have choked up my Anaheim post office box all this month.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

“Come, eat something,” she said; but I put both away from me, feeling as if a drop or a crumb would have choked me in my present condition.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë