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How to use the word throttle in a Sentence?

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I was kind of hesitant to leave my job, a job -- all you have to do is show up for work and it's guaranteed money. But I kind of woke up one day and I was like, I am going full throttle with this.

Cameron Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What he should be saying is we need to open up American energy production — full-throttle. We need to be the energy-dominant nation in the world, and we're not, and the reason we're not is Joe Biden.

Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're just running at full throttle to try to jack turnout on March 1. It's very simple. There's no trickery or' strategery' or bank shots. It's just straight up turn out Out The Vote.

Dave Carney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He could blockade the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, he could launch a full-throttle assault on Kyiv, which we would obviously see. He could also use his Spetsnaz guys, special forces guys — and they're inside Ukraine already — to topple this Zelensky government. That's also an option.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The hope is that full-throttle 5G, like these new airwaves will help provide, will be light years faster than the Wi-Fi you usually get at airports, so waiting for a flight or flight delays might be less painful if you can more readily stream better interactive games or 4K videos at full quality.

Bill Menezes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The nature of this crisis is such that it demands a minister who can be ready to go full throttle immediately.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We took Puerto Rico seriously and played at full throttle from start to finish, we still have room to improve. It will be tough against Spain (in the next game) as always but we are looking forward to the challenge.

Boban Marjanovic

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We came in with that mindset to put our foot on the throttle and not let go, we let go in Game 2 and we wont do that the rest of the playoffs. I really believe that.

Klay Thompson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We're old men now...we can't go out there and pretend it's going to be anywhere like we were 40, 50 years ago, adding the orchestra...can elevate the music into a place where it feels kind of grown up...(but) people mustn't think just because there's an orchestra with The Who that it's going to be watered down. We'll be playing exactly full throttle like we usually do.

Roger Daltrey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In the short term, I'm not very worried much about the public health impact, but every day that passes presents a new threat that something will happen that could have been prevented if the government was functioning at full throttle.

Irwin Redlener

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is a near-constant roar akin to a full-throttle 747 interspersed with deafening, earth-shattering explosions that hurtle 100-pound (45-kg) lava bombs 100 feet (30 meters) into the air.

Mark Clawson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The suspension and the throttle conversion had been altered - that was why it went flying.

Scotlands Andy Quay

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The open internet rules are here to stay, this time there is no doubt who is the winner: the open internet. The gatekeepers may not block or throttle our information.

Pantelis Michalopoulos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I’ve never done anything like this, this is our first time, all three of us. Not expecting a lot. I know catching the pythons is actually super hard, but we’re going to go full throttle with this and see what we can do.

William Spake

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You don't floor it. How in the world do you go 99 percent throttle after that?

Prosecutor Marc Chavez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Fed is fixated on jobs and its ability to throttle inflation. Meanwhile unless we get a lousy jobs number tomorrow I think the Fed is going to be on the hook to explain themselves if they're not going to raise.

Jack Ablin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not easy, it's a little bit tricky and it's really quite hectic. It's not like an airplane, where you just push the throttle forward. You have to watch out for your kneecaps.

George Steinmetz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The only way that an operable train can accelerate would be if the engineer pushed the throttle forward.

Robert Sumwalt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In order to increase the speed as much as it was increased in this case, you would have had to really, really move the throttle, frankly, I am puzzled about the whole thing.

Charles Culver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In order to increase the speed as much as it was increased in this case, you would have had to really, really move the throttle, frankly, I am puzzled about the whole thing. It's not like it was a few miles per hour over the speed limit.

Charles Culver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The cult of personality around Xi is being built at full throttle, and Xi himself is responsible for this, it's getting to ridiculous levels.

Willy Lam

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

Henry Louis Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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