choke hold
Example Sentences
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Conventional morality was no longer a choke hold on dramatic characters, who were allowed to set dangerous new precedents for audiences that may have been easily shocked but were by no means easily deterred.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
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
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
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
Her hair had a choke hold on me, and I couldn’t get past it.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
