Sentence examples for choked from inspiring English sources

"When I heard this, frankly, I choked on my porridge and I thought it must be April Fools' day," Cameron said.

Nilsen was caught after plumbers found a blocked drain choked with human flesh.

There was no rebuttal pointing out the decent levels of growth before George Osborne choked off the recovery Even the entirely false statement that Gordon Brown had sold off the Britain's gold reserves at knock-down prices to fund public spending went unchallenged, sacrificed to the strategy of fighting the 2015 election, not the 2010 one all over again.

As reported last year, the view from the open courtyard in the centre of the mosque is now choked with cranes, jostling for position with minarets and towers; but this year there is a new addition just metres from the Kaaba itself.

With the entire city choked by building work, the kingdom has taken the unusual step of urging pilgrims to delay their visit, and numbers are down 20% this year as a result of reduced visa quotas.

The test of a nation is not how many millionaires you have, but how many millions you lift out of poverty … Donald Kaberuka Kaberuka also warns that Africa's economic development is being choked by chronic energy shortages: "Today, in every single African country, from South Africa to the north, the biggest impediment to economic growth is energy," he says.

The last time I was stung by a wasp, I reacted very badly - my tongue swelled up and nearly choked me - so I now take a daily antihistamine during the summer to prevent it happening again.

That would have choked off the open data agenda from day one.