How to Use choke point in a Sentence

choke point

noun

• With its 50-50 split, the Senate is looking like the choke point.
  — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• The region isn’t the only cable choke point around the world.
  — WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
• That’s the choke point for gun owners in the election season.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Bridges became choke points, and as those made of wood caught fire, people were trapped.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
• To make sure there aren’t any deer above you, focus these stands on choke points and saddles.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 2 Dec. 2019
• No hunches like the one that told him to bet $223 of his paper-route money on a stranger’s choke point.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Palestinians call it a choke point that can be shut off on a soldier’s whim.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• Since then, a spate of attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz shipping choke point have raised the specter of war and pushed up oil prices.
  — Saleha Mohsin, Fortune, 24 June 2019
• Having just two outdoor stages worked well, and there weren't any traffic choke points.
  — Robert Morast, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
• The project would be located at the Brandon Road lock and dam — a key choke point on the river — about 40 miles from Lake Michigan.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
• With the lawmakers slowly draining out the far end of the hall, those doors became a strategic choke point.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• At least one was said to be in the 1700 block of Independence Avenue SW, a key traffic choke point.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• If that jet stream should encounter a high-pressure system, full of dry light winds, that can act as a choke point for the vortex.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2020
• Even with moves to ease shipping to the island, the docks have become choke points in the effort to aid storm survivors and may not reach those who need them for days.
  — Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• This choke point can put commuters into a cold sweat of dashboard-pounding rage.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2018
• The congestion between second green and the third tee also became a choke point at times.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2019
• The new bridge will have six general travel lanes — one more than the existing bridge to help address a choke point.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• But the Red Sea is not the only potential choke point for global transport and shipping.
  — Arion McNicoll, theweek, 22 Jan. 2024
• River crossings are choke points where travelers can be forced to pony up tolls.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
• But while choke points still exist, the difference in the feel of the event is immense, allowing for more guests and far less crowding all at the same time.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
• The supply chain issues are global, and American ports are just one choke point among many.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 13 Oct. 2021
• Straubel left Tesla, in part, because of his growing alarm over a looming choke point in the global supply chain.
  — Tom Randall, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2021
• Hackathon going on right now to fix 2 worst robot production choke points.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 13 May 2018
• By targeting the tankers, Iraq hoped to cripple Iran economically and force the closure of the choke point.
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 23 July 2019
• That would seem like a phenomenal choke point, but all of a sudden, in one year, Tencent took almost half of that way from them.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 17 Sep. 2018
• With more global shipping now that ever, new technologies are emerging that can mend choke points in the process.
  — Mejs Hasan, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• Many also agree the state needs to replace the 60-year-old American Legion Bridge, a chronic Beltway choke point.
  — Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Major choke points slow and disrupt train traffic along the corridor.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
• Since May, at least six vessels have been attacked near the strait, the world’s most important oil choke point, in incidents that the United States have blamed on Iran.
  — Erin Cunningham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
• Some experts worry that traffic diverted by the tolls could create new choke points outside the zone.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024