(all) choked up

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: close to crying and/or having difficulty talking due to strong emotion

She got all choked up when she saw her daughter in her wedding dress.

Examples of (all) choked up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Toward the end of his Thursday interview with Kay/DLG, Lyons got all choked up while thanking his co-workers. —

Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024 In January, Ford got choked up while accepting the career achievement award from the Critics Choice Association. —

Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024 Loading your audio article SAN JOSE — Stacey Andrade King was so choked up that her youngest daughter stepped up to the microphone in a Santa Clara County courtroom to read her prepared remarks about the prospect of resentencing the man who murdered King’s mother. —

Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024 Hugh got very choked up and repeated a line after me, and that ended up defining the tone of that scene. —

Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for (all) choked up

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