chokes

If a toy chokes a few children it is (rightly) pulled from the market.

Its insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there.

She reluctantly gulps it down, chokes, and allows little rivers of green juice to dribble from the corner of her mouth.

Exhausted from the chronic pain that pulsates through her body day and night, she chokes up on the phone.

A slushy dysfunctional housewife chokes on a sandwich in her kitchen and wakes up to find that she has been saved by God.

Steam rises from many pools, and the sulphur smell almost chokes one.

The welcome home—the voices of innumerable strangers—the hand-grips of many friend—it chokes one—it cannot be uttered!

At any rate, between chokes, my "little pet" raised the most roof-splitting yells.

Yes, beastly cold, sunless hole; it kills every bit of a plant you put in, and the kitchen chokes them to death.

Grain returned in the tailings is liable to get cracked in the cylinder, and much chaff in the tailings chokes the cylinder.