Sentence examples for try to throttle from inspiring English sources

Inside him, Mike Smith, aboard the 4-1 favorite Bodemeister, will have to make a snap decision — take on Trinniberg or try to throttle his colt down.

Tazawa watched the Yankees dominate Boston's pitchers, knowing that he would have to try to throttle that same ferocious lineup Saturday.

The ones he does hold on to remind him of the past, of euphoric victories and agonizing defeats, of former pupils and colleagues, of a team he once pledged allegiance to — and, later, would try to throttle once a season.

Just days after you have arrived, and perhaps tried to get to know other prisoners or staff, you find yourself back in an unyielding metal box in a van with no seatbelts so you don't try to throttle yourself.

And to those who continually try to throttle and choke the Affordable Care Act, which for the first time in American history does not penalize me and others like me with pre-existing conditions, as if we chose to have a serious illness?

This bandwidth intensive activity is frowned upon by some ISPs who will try to throttle BitTorrent traffic.

Republicans in Congress characterize the proposed regulation as a job killer and are trying to throttle it.

One young woman who wrote to me had been having sex with her boyfriend for the first time when, with no warning, he started trying to throttle her.

Wood began drinking again and was arrested a year later after witnesses claimed he tried to throttle his girlfriend during a drunken row in the street.

After an exchange of insults in a debate over the admission of Kansas as a slave state, he leaped up and tried to throttle Representative Galusha A. Grow, Republican of Pennsylvania.

When, on that long-ago night, Christina claims that her mother tried to throttle her, a secretary eventually pulled them apart and summoned a juvenile officer to the house.