How to Use choke hold in a Sentence

choke hold

noun

• The church has had us in a choke hold for a long time now.
  — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
• In the late aughts, Kings of Leon had the culture in a choke hold.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2022
• One guest put a choke hold on one of the men involved in the fight.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 23 July 2019
• No one's going to come up to them and put them in a choke hold.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• What is the choke hold that choke holds have on these characters?
  — Vulture, 4 June 2023
• Carey put Deshuk in a choke hold, according to recordings of the 911 calls.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Snoring can be a sign that someone has passed out from a choke hold.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
• The Capitol Police should have used some choke holds (and batons, and guns) on 1/6/21.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• As the woman attempted to call police, the man took her cell phone and put her in a choke hold.
  — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2020
• In Round 3 Alvey comes roaring back, stunned Spann with a hard shot and nearly got him with a standup choke hold against the cage.
  — oregonlive, 10 May 2020
• After about nine seconds of choke hold, the clerk’s pants were putting up a better fight to stay up than the robber.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 Feb. 2018
• In one of the most notorious moments of the show, Hogan placed Mr. Belzer in a choke hold as part of an on-air bit that went too far.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• Diaz slipped past a strong choke hold midway in the first round and then mounted Pettis to pound him with clubbing fists.
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• Gatewood grabbed the minor and slammed him down on the bleachers and placed him in a choke hold, according to court documents.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2023
• Hewitt reacted by pointing the gun at Soodeen's face, then putting her in a choke hold.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
• There are two kinds of choke holds: a blood choke, which closes the carotid artery in the neck and cuts off blood supply to the brain; and an air choke, which closes the trachea and stops breathing.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• Kafantaris’ father, Manuel Kafas, ran up and put Williams in a choke hold, according to police records and the lawsuit.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
• The central bank slashed rates to near zero in March 2020 when the pandemic took the US economy into a choke hold.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• This is from 2012, so reality TV already had a choke hold on culture for a long time.
  — Ian Goldstein, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
• Nichols intervened by putting a choke hold on Shufford, who stopped breathing, records said.
  — Ruth Ann Krause, Post-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2017
• The main card got started with Sabah Homasi forcing Jaleel Willis to tap out with an arm triangle choke hold at 1:42 of the first round in a welterweight bout.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2022
• Later, trying for a jump ball, Stephenson took down the Cavs' Jeff Green with headlock that wanted to grow up to be a rasslin' villain's choke hold.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The sticking point, said Vaez, is that some of those sanctions are not in direct violation of the 2015 deal but are now a major choke hold for Iran.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
• His words echoed the last pleas of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was killed in 2014 when a New York police officer placed him in a choke hold.
  — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2020
• Frazier is among the Bay Area’s most fearless performers, always keeping her text in a choke hold.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• Dawson did say there is footage of her daughter being placed in a choke hold by the police officer for two minutes.
  — Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Critics say the rule just puts a choke hold on legal immigration for no reason.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
• The employee saw a man punching a woman and holding her in a choke hold, according to her statement.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• No fractured ribs, no caratoid choke hold, just nice buddy buddy talk.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2019
• After a brief argument, in which the officers made light of his name, the rapper was put in a choke hold, slammed against the pavement, and then charged with resisting arrest.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024