throttle
noun
a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
throttled
Example Sentences
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She escaped the control of her hard-driving father by marrying, only to see her creative life throttled as she competed for piano time with her husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
About five miles separate Agoura and Westlake high schools, but there seemed to be a great deal more distance between them Friday night, as host Westlake throttled the Chargers 38-7 in a nonleague game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
How else to explain those tech CEOs who usually can’t get enough change suddenly wanting it throttled?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
That throttled supply means property prices -- and therefore rents -- make up an unaffordable proportion of many people's income.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
As a result, ships built and manned in Spain itself were able to sail to the West Indies; there was nothing equivalent to the Greenland bottleneck that had throttled Norse colonization.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
