How to Use choke off in a Sentence

choke off

verb
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  • Port-au-Prince’s gangs are still choking off the supply of food, fuel and water across the city.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The Fed has raised rates aggressively for the past year to try to choke off inflation.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Policies that wind up choking off the export of EV wrecks would in some ways be a shame, Slattery says.
    — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The next day, wildfire smoke began to choke off outdoor dining at restaurants across the state.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Humans have choked off salmon habitat with dams and culverts.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Blast walls, designed to absorb bomb impacts, line roads, and choke off buildings and homes.
    — Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Warring gangs control much of Port-au-Prince, choking off vital supply lines to the rest of the country.
    — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
  • With an aggressive string of rate hikes last seen in the 1980s, the Fed aims to slash price hikes by slowing the economy and choking off demand.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • For a tiny portion of patients, the plaque can choke off blood flow, leading to amputations or death.
    — Katie Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • The third stop was just a great example of Lewis triggering forward quickly from depth to choke off the pitch as the RB attacked the perimeter.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Financial failures can lead to a lack of credit which in turn can choke off investment and growth.
    — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • But the advancing Russian army threatens to choke off key supply routes.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Smoke from the Caldor Fire raging southwest of Lake Tahoe had been helping to choke off the spread of flames, for instance, and the pace of evacuations was easing.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • In the 1780s, silt resulting from the overproduction of tobacco on area farms clogged the harbor and choked off its booming trade.
    — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But just as tighter curbs on exports choke off revenue to the Kremlin, the future is also far more perilous for investment.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Western scheme aims to choke off the primary source of funds behind the Russian war in Ukraine but the move risks disrupting the global oil supply and spiking gas prices.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Gene silencers, such as a drug called patisiran, choke off the production of TTR in the liver, including the abnormal kind.
    — Grace Browne, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Police have now begun trying to choke off the supply lines of food, fuel and other goods that have sustained the protesters.
    — Jennifer Hassan and Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The larger-than-usual cut was interpreted in the US as an attempt to raise oil prices ahead of midterm elections as the West tried to choke off the Russian oil revenues that were funding the war.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Other Russian units set up pontoon bridges to cross the Siverskyi Donets river near the village of Bilohorivka in an attempt to choke off the supply road.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • But even if Iran were to choke off exports through the strait, the U.S. would have the capacity to lean on its own domestic production, analysts said.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Central banks are raising interest rates to counter rising prices, a move that could choke off economic growth.
    — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The West is making its biggest push yet to choke off Russia’s oil revenue that has so far blunted the impact of economic sanctions against the country.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Yet the world’s rich are trying to choke off funding for new fossil fuels in developing countries.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • The European Union is trying to water down its version after the industry warned that a strict approach would risk choking off the supply of credit to the bloc’s economies.
    — Katanga Johnson, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
  • The Elwha dams choked off salmon migration, too, and their removal was also the subject of a decades-long political battle.
    — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Russian control of Mariupol’s port would also choke off Ukraine’s access to the Sea of Azov, an important shipping hub.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • That's a clear benefit to working Americans that can be sold on the campaign trail, but the risk of wages rising too quickly is levels of inflation that could choke off growth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine choked off a key pipeline for grain and fertilizer, triggering a spike in food prices.
    — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • After 18 months of war, Ukraine is still seeking ways big and small to choke off foreign funding to Russia — in part by shaming companies that continue to work in the country.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023

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