choke hold
Example Sentences
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In “Two Prosecutors,” the inert nobodies blocking Kornev’s progress are crisply choreographed, Stalin’s existential choke hold strangling their very spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
The narrow-minded criticisms that informed these changes still have a choke hold on popular culture, and they do far more harm than influencing a mere movie script.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
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
They just had to hope that the people in town during the quarantine were tired enough of the mine’s choke hold on them to go along with the scheme.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
