choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Well, the main Boer army, under Joubert, blocks the country between this and the River Tugela, and that country is choke-full of rocky hills and kopjes.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
"Over head and ears," muttered the other; "we have been discounting their paper freely all through the winter, till our drawers are choke-full of their acceptances, not one of which would now realize a dollar."
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
They are crammed choke-full with every known mechanical contrivance for the production of ear-stunning noises.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by Chambers, William
It is choke-full of all kinds of learning, of the most pungent remarks—a very hoard of sentences and saws, “of vigorous locutions and picturesque phrases, of strong, sound sense, and robust English.”
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
There is a kind of innocent-looking woman who knows no more of the world than a young chicken, and is choke-full of emotions.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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