Example Sentences

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However, he said that shortages of computer chips, and staff self-isolating due to the "pingdemic", were "throttling" the industry's ability to take advantage of a strengthening economic outlook.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2021

He likes fat, sludgy tones and clipped attacks, often repeating a note as if he were throttling it.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, which does not use the currency, argued that euro zone leaders were throttling economic growth in their bloc.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012

He was white as the moon and shaking so hard it was as if some outside force were throttling him.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

A lightly clad Kalmuk, who followed them a-foot, sprang instantly upon the stallion, cut the thongs that were throttling him, and engaged with him in a contest of incredible agility and daring.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport