choke
verb (used with object)
to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
Example Sentences
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Then, one day—God knows when—the sky widened behind the trees, and I saw the blue flank of a hill unchoked by timber.
From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The beets have a chance to grow unchoked, and to get ahead.
From Driven Back to Eden by Roe, Edward Payson
Yet these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression are only health or fortunate constitution.
From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Sometimes they walked down aisles unchoked by brush but full of moving shadows, above which sounded the lonely continuous hooting of the owl.
From The Valiant Runaways by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
On the western perimeter he was beyond the deep thicket, and within a magnificent wood, unchoked by undergrowth.
From The Rulers of the Lakes A Story of George and Champlain by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
