As he retold the story, he paused, choking back emotion.
Choking back emotion as he spoke, Mr. Kurdi described how he had flailed about while trying to find his children as his wife held on to the capsized boat.
Yet it continued, slow, determined, choking back emotion: "But now I know I just can't take it anymore/And with a humble heart on bended knee/I'm begging you please for help".
Sitting in the plush lobby chair, Sievers choked back emotion while describing his former life.
To advocate conservative solutions that would give more Americans the opportunity to rise up and reach their God-given potential," Bush said, choking back emotion.
Like many hearing news reports that day, I kept choking back emotion as I thought of the lives lost and the innocence of the young victims -- 20 children dead along with six educators was unfathomable.
As I spoke with my wife, I had to choke back my emotions.
Choking back his emotion, he added, "Thank goodness Alec Guinness is going strong".
As he spoke, he seemed to choke back tears.
Watson, who broke down in tears after his win last year at the Travelers Championship in Hartford, nearly broke down again, but he choked back his emotions throughout his post-tournament interviews.
On a new episode of National Geographic's "One Strange Rock," Whitson choked back her emotions as she remembered the splendor of her record-setting time in space: gliding weightlessly through a craft that represents the pinnacle of human ingenuity; looking out a window at an entire swirling hemisphere.
