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
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
Armpit charged into them, freeing Zigzag from Zero's choke hold.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
