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Example sentences for "choking"

Lexicographically close words:
choke; choked; chokepoints; choker; chokes; chokingly; choky; cholagogue; choler; cholera
  1. Weighed down by her heavy sorrow, Damayantí made answer with tear-choking voice: “Alas!

  2. He closed the door behind him, and then he stood with clenched hands and heaving breast, choking down some overmastering emotion.

  3. The thick, warm air of the conservatory and the rich, choking fragrance of exotic plants took us by the throat.

  4. With that cautious sense of superstitious dread choking their muttered whispers, they reached the spot and prepared to descend.

  5. Perhaps he could see the old man, himself unseen, he thought with a boyish choking in his throat.

  6. Unfortunately I was under water longer than my breath would hold out, and came to the view of Radley and Doe, choking and spluttering and splashing.

  7. The violent exercise of the morning had given me a good appetite and I ate my dinner with relish, though with some difficulty, for the choking had lamed my throat.

  8. Because of the severe choking administered earlier in the day it was with difficulty that I swallowed any food.

  9. The choking which I had just received served only to limber my vocal cords.

  10. The contraction must be both involuntary and prolonged, as during a choking fit, or energetic, as during a sneeze.

  11. A sort of choking sound came from one of the bunks; a vague, obscene murmuring filled the whole place revoltingly.

  12. Choking down a cry of horror, I opened my eyes--heedless of the promise given but a few moments earlier--and looked into the face of my guide.

  13. The atmosphere of the latter was sufficiently abominable; indeed, the stench was appalling; but a wave of choking vapor met me as I paused for a moment at the threshold of this inner sanctuary.

  14. Thank you, sir," murmured Mark, in a choking voice, and his eyes looked his gratitude.

  15. But his head--it must be kept above water," whispered back Mark in a choking voice, for he felt hysterical and strange.

  16. Asher, pride of success choking him, pulled the lever hard over, which brought some of the tubes beneath him spreading out, to blast away the earth on each side of him.

  17. He dared to row now, and his breath was coming in great choking sobs of sheer exhaustion when at last he pulled the senseless form of Ruth Allaire to the deck of the Nagasaki and drew her within the frail shelter of the wireless room.

  18. He continued his choking process, paying no attention to his employer's efforts to haul him away.

  19. Felix Hardwick had him by the throat, and was slowly but surely choking him.

  20. If the man choking you flattens his body closely enough against yours, you simply haven't the room to start doubling your knees.

  21. I had been choked before, and also done a bit of choking on my own account; so I knew to within a few seconds how long it is before the head of a man whose wind is shut off begins to reel.

  22. She was choking me right through the net before I really knew what had happened.

  23. Luis, his voice choking with grief, and with willing blindness deceiving himself; "Heaven will yet spare you to me.

  24. Poor Clara was too full of grief to answer, her struggling tears choking her utterance; but she felt that she was sacrificing herself at the shrine of filial obedience, and she endeavoured to find composure in the thought.

  25. He got up slowly from his chair, and stood half choking with unutterable words.

  26. At the second puff he heard a choking gasp, and looked up again.

  27. Liane Delorme said abruptly, in a choking voice: "Open the safe, please, Captain Monk.

  28. The dry biscuit of conventional service is put to the lips of the choking sufferer, and cannot be swallowed.

  29. I was choking with rage and indignation, but did not well know how to help myself.

  30. Ellerton tapped one a little with his cane, and I was choking the one that hit Burly, but the mutton-headed Faculty broke us up.

  31. For awhile she hurried, fighting her choking terror of the emptiness that was left.

  32. It seemed to be heavier than air, and soon it made its way down into the trenches, choking our men and throwing them into a state of terror.

  33. He walked another hundred yards, and then fell into a chair, choking with emotion.

  34. She came in first, slowly, and wrapped in a transparent muslin dressing-gown, and stopped, as if the beating of her heart were choking her.

  35. Rivet, who was very drunk, and half undressed, was vainly trying to violate Rosa, who was half choking with laughter.

  36. She could not speak for a choking in her throat.

  37. Then her breast began to labour with choking sobs.

  38. I am at their disposal whenever they want me," I replied, choking at this disagreeable information.

  39. Mr. Whippleton was bending over me; his right hand was choking me, while his left grasped a rope.

  40. But its very roughness offered protection, and Rawson fought the dragging sand, and the gray, choking ash that dried his throat and cut it like emery, without fear of being observed.

  41. Sputtering and choking for breath, Rawson came to the surface.

  42. He rushed forward now, Loah still bravely at his side--past the fallen bodies, through the choking odor of burned flesh.

  43. Jack emitted a suspicious little choking sound, and his eyes were dim.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "choking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abolition; annihilation; annulment; asphyxiation; bar; barrier; block; blockade; blurred; breathy; choke; choking; clog; congestion; constipation; contrary; crosswise; dying; elimination; embolism; extermination; extinction; garrote; gorge; guttural; harsh; hawking; hoarse; impasse; impediment; inarticulate; indistinct; inhibiting; inhibitive; jam; killing; liquidation; lisping; nasal; nauseated; negation; nullification; obstacle; obstruction; obstructive; purge; quavering; repression; repressive; restrictive; shaking; shaky; starvation; stifled; stifling; stop; stoppage; strangled; strangling; strangulation; suffocation; suppression; suppressive; thick; throaty; throttling; tremulous; troublesome