choke hold
Example Sentences
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“I feel like an MMA fighter who keeps getting inflation in a choke hold, waiting for it to tap out, yet it keeps slipping out of my grasp at the last minute,” Waller said.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2024
“They have such a choke hold on my family. I can’t imagine our grocery list without it at this point,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024
During the Gilded Age, farmers came together in an effort to break the railroad companies’ choke hold on food transportation.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
It is the sense of familiar territory made surreal, of easiness gradually becoming a choke hold, that gives “Room” its echoing power.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2019
Armpit charged into them, freeing Zigzag from Zero's choke hold.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
