choke hold
Example Sentences
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The infamous legal arrangement, known in some other states as a guardianship, put a court-ordered choke hold on the entertainer’s personal life, financial affairs and globally recognized career.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023
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
American Demetrious Johnson, also making his One Championship debut, won his flyweight bout when he got Japan’s Yuya Wakamatsu in a choke hold at 2 minutes, 40-seconds of the second round.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2019
A big bowl of pasta is hard to enjoy if you know it will render you sluggish the next morning, when a crazy-eyed mixed martial artist is trying to ease you into a choke hold.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017
Her hair had a choke hold on me, and I couldn’t get past it.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
