The phrase "choking air" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe air that is difficult to breathe, often due to pollution, smoke, or other harmful substances.
Example: "As the wildfire spread, the town was enveloped in choking air, making it hard for residents to breathe."
Alternatives: "suffocating air" or "stifling air."
Spot trash fires are common in India and contribute to choking air pollution.
It is very much a premodern city, however -- crowded, filthy and stinking, with open sewers, unpaved roads and choking air.
Chinese authorities have found a new culprit for the country's choking air pollution, beyond under-regulated coal plants and manufacturers.
A switch to electric vehicles, along with better public transport, would also reduce choking air pollution in the developing world's megacities.
BEIJING — With 49 days remaining before the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, and the air soupy with smog, Beijing officials on Friday announced temporary measures to unsnarl the city's traffic and reduce its chronic and sometimes choking air pollution.
It is the generations to come that will have to cope with rising sea levels, national debt, choking air and diminished food and land resources.Michael Sturdy Armstrong, CanadaIn people we trustSIR – If ballot initiatives are "the crack cocaine of democracy" ("America's future", July 11th), then why is it that Switzerland is not a seething bankrupt hellhole?
Ventilation pipes ran along the sides of the tunnel, circulating the choked air, which, unlike the freezing air at the surface, was nearly seventy degrees, a humid mist of dust and fumes.
Teachers struggle to concentrate, as if they were choking on air.
HAVANA — Two flags hung limp in the choking, viscous air that enveloped the Estadio Pedro Marrero.
Sandstorms blanketed Cairo for a second day on Sunday, choking the air with dust and turning the sky a tepid beige.
For decades, the rise in human numbers has been seen as the chief force threatening rain forests, depleting fisheries, choking the air and polluting the waters.
