throttle

Professional gardeners like to use their blowers at full throttle.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Class 2 bikes can also be ridden by people of any age, but are equipped with a throttle and reach a maximum speed of 20 mph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He will probably do that at full throttle, too.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Because it’s liquid-fueled, “you can deep throttle it, you can turn it way down, you can turn it off, you can turn off and on an infinite number of times.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Holly jerked the throttle, straight from fourth to reverse.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

They have throttles and much more powerful motors and may only be ridden legally on private land with the owner's permission.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

But if an internet service provider throttles traffic in response to data caps, a VPN can’t stop that.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

The short-term impact of opening the fiscal, monetary and credit throttles is easy to predict: rapid growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

But in a repost and exchange with tech financier Paul Graham on Sunday, Musk admitted that his platform throttles posts with links in them.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

They opened their throttles to full speed, and even then they were only just able to keep up.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

Persian Gulf nations that throttled oil production will need time to restart operations and ships may wait to attempt passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

That throttled supply means property prices -- and therefore rents -- make up an unaffordable proportion of many people's income.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

Oil rebounded and Asian equities fell early Thursday as marine traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained throttled amid a fragile U.S.-Iran cease-fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

With an unorthodox business model that allows it to capitalize on global disruptions, Venture Global raked in billions of dollars in 2022 when Russia throttled gas deliveries to Europe and buyers sought new supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest—more than once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Beijing began throttling exports of some of those materials in recent years, raising global alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But China’s throttling back of oil imports and its use of hidden reserves to calm global crude prices were also surprises.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

Privacy A VPN’s raison d’être: encrypting your traffic to mask your internet browsing from your ISP and prevent it from throttling your connection.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

On Friday, just two ships passed through the narrow waterway, which has seen traffic collapse, throttling shipments of everything from wheat and rice to oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

It was not as though he was really surprised, thought Harry, as he wrestled with a thorny vine intent upon throttling him; he had had an inkling that this might happen sooner or later.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling