Sentence examples for choking from inspiring English sources

Terry reversed back up Murchison Street, hoping he wouldn't hit anything in the choking black fog.

He has been eating his own faeces with a view to choking himself.

Many people have the odds stacked against them from the outset, their class of origin holding them back in too many ways to list here, choking the vast potential everyone possesses.

I've talked to their officials and – believe me – it's all they can do to stop themselves choking on their fairtrade coffee when they hear people from Europe and North America telling them how to use their country's resources after centuries of cutting down all of our own forests, exterminating Indian populations from coast to coast and drilling for oil.

We chose home again – for the same childcare reasons – but his was a longer birth, complicated by the fact that the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, potentially choking him.

Arsenal's history has abundant examples of choking nightmares as favourites: it dates back to Cardiff City in 1927, along with Swindon in 1969, West Ham 1980, Luton 1988, Real Zaragoza 1995.

Chinese cities are now choking on dangerous air pollution, because of the reliance on coal.

Since they came forward, police have charged Ghomeshi with seven counts of sexual assault and one of choking, for which he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted (he has pleaded "not guilty" to all charges).

This wasn't enough to stop the influential US blogger Andrew Sullivan choking on his morning latte.

Even China – which Jing has hailed as an example of transformational change from coal – is moving away from coal, because of air pollution choking its cities.

Her film is a choking epic tracing relations between an imperious aristo (played by Jessica Chastain) and her social-climbing butler (Colin Farrell).