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How to use the word choke in a Sentence?

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Talking to the law enforcement in Colorado, they're overwhelmed. They need help at the border. We've got to choke down the supply on this fentanyl, on methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, all of that. They need help with the supply and so we've got to get this border under control and restore some law and order.

Colorado Senate

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've got the drugs, the methamphetamine, the fentanyl coming straight up I-25 into Colorado for those drugs that get through the border down here. talking to the law enforcement in Colorado, they're overwhelmed. They need help at the border. We've got to choke down the supply on this fentanyl, on methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, all of that. They need help with the supply and so we've got to get this border under control and restore some law and order.

Colorado Senate

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The only thing I really follow is listening to the presidential stuff, which I could just choke on.

Kimberly Kell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re racing with Michael Jordan type of spirit, when we just missed out on pole position at Loudon [ New Hampshire ], Jeff Robinson texted me with the [ shrug ] emoji of ‘ Why ’d you choke ? What ’d you do wrong ? I thought you had it.'.

Kurt Busch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a boa constrictor that is biting off one piece at a time and is basically trying to choke the entire country.

Cedric Leighton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Trucking is the pipeline through which the economy flows, and when you choke down on that pipeline, then you’re going to cause problems. The pipeline was already full. We already had more loads than we had trucks… It’s taken an already difficult situation and made it terribly worse.

Joe Chandler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Patrons have brought an inordinate number of bags this year, all of which need to be searched, this becomes the main choke point for entry.

The USTA

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is not meant to choke off the entire 21st century. This is meant to help regulate it.

Andrew Gounardes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The officer on top was shimmying to actually get the final choke in.

Donald Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

Tom Waits

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

I choke out, yes, of course, it would be ok! i never expected that.

Emilie Smith

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It came at the end of a couple really hard weeks, i remember going home and walking through the front door, and I couldn't speak for a minute. I was just crying like a baby, and my little boy saw me and wrapped around my leg and said,' Daddy what's wrong ?' And eventually I was able to choke it out :' Buddy, right now, for once, nothing's wrong.'.

Earlham Mayor Jeff Lillie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.”

Jules Renard

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I thought it was pretty weird how they were telling Brooks Koepka to choke, that's not my cup of tea. I was pulling for Brooks Koepka after that. I have a few choice words for that. Just cheering for Brooks Koepka to do bad, I just don't get that.

Harold Varner III

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I threw two punches and a kick. Read MoreREAD fell, then I caught Read MoreREAD in a rear-naked choke. Then I sat Read MoreREAD down in the same place we were before.

Polyana Viana

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Choke in your own vomit.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I made sure he was rolled over on his side and face so we would not choke on his blood.

Elliot Montalvan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I have — I ’m going to choke up, it’s so horrible — my children, same age, and as a community, you come together and you’re affected by it. It’s tragedy. No words. I don’t know how to explain it.

Sandra Taglieri

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I can choke a brick, poke a stick, and drown a glass of water

Charles 'Mr. Go Hard' Scott

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I have no doubt in my mind that many of our members, particularly retailers, but also manufacturers and importers, were victims of Operation Choke Point, we’re very pleased to see the end of the program.

Lawrence Keane

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I did n’t know about Operation Choke Point, but when I got the letter from the bank and found out about it, it kind of made sense.

Russ Farnsworth

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It turns out Donald Trump didn't just choke, John Podesta got beat in the room and lied about it.

John Podesta

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I'm starting to choke up.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When I was first elected to this office, Malia was 10 and Sasha was just seven. And they grow up too fast, i'm starting to choke up.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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