Sentence examples for trying to choke from inspiring English sources

"The choking game involves intentionally trying to choke oneself or someone else with one's hand or a noose to obtain a brief euphoric state, or a high," said Robin L. Toblin of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

They had their hands on my throat and... were trying to choke me".

Clinton administration officials also began trying to choke off Al Qaeda's financial network.

Four massacred artichokes later, I gave up trying to "choke" them.

We inherited a mess and we have a central bank" — the European Central Bank — "trying to choke us".

"And the E.U. should press the Russian leadership to stop trying to choke off free speech and assembly and any sign of dissent".

But after more than two months of street demonstrations against the labour changes, the hardline CGT union has radically intensified its strategy and is now trying to choke-off the nation's fuel supply to force Hollande to abandon the reforms it sees as a betrayal of workers' rights.

Brown is also alleged to have tried to choke her.

When Ann reprimanded him, he tried to choke her.

The Bank of Japan sold yen last week to try to choke off inflows to Japan.

They wouldn't try to choke off the supply chain to the United States, in other words.