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
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
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
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
