Sentence examples for were choked from inspiring English sources
verb
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
Cities were choked with smog.
Supplies of food and fuel were choked off.
His nose and mouth were choked with snow.
On the night of the fight, the skies above the Pyramid were choked with helicopters.
Some of the employees were women, and they were choked by the fires".
*Boys and girls were choked, slapped, beaten and attacked with pepper spray.
By the mid-1800's, the streets of Lower Manhattan were choked with pedestrians and trolleys.
Outside, the city came within days of bankruptcy, and the streets were choked with crime.
Imphal's streets were choked with tear gas and the smoke of burning tyres.
"You almost felt as though you were choked by all that data".
My driver got lost in Port-Bouët's labyrinthine streets, which were choked with the blue taxis known as woro-woro.
