chokes

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• If a toy chokes a few children it is (rightly) pulled from the market.

• Its insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there.

• She reluctantly gulps it down, chokes, and allows little rivers of green juice to dribble from the corner of her mouth.

• Exhausted from the chronic pain that pulsates through her body day and night, she chokes up on the phone.

• A slushy dysfunctional housewife chokes on a sandwich in her kitchen and wakes up to find that she has been saved by God.

• Steam rises from many pools, and the sulphur smell almost chokes one.

• The welcome home—the voices of innumerable strangers—the hand-grips of many friend—it chokes one—it cannot be uttered!

• At any rate, between chokes, my "little pet" raised the most roof-splitting yells.

• Yes, beastly cold, sunless hole; it kills every bit of a plant you put in, and the kitchen chokes them to death.

• Grain returned in the tailings is liable to get cracked in the cylinder, and much chaff in the tailings chokes the cylinder.