How to Use choke off in a Sentence

choke off

verb
  • Oil prices have spiked this week as the war chokes off exports.
    — Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Humans have choked off salmon habitat with dams and culverts.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • At one point, thick, black smoke choked off the area for blocks and residents were forced to put on masks.
    — Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Hormuz Crisis has choked off both.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • But what causes the black hole’s feeding frenzy to start and later choke off again?
    — Daniel Clery, science.org, 3 July 2024
  • On an average day, some 20% of oil used to move through the strait that the war choked off.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Blast walls, designed to absorb bomb impacts, line roads, and choke off buildings and homes.
    — Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Again and again, the narration is choked off just when things begin to get challenging.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The next day, wildfire smoke began to choke off outdoor dining at restaurants across the state.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Dry air chokes off thunderstorms and forces a budding system to stumble.
    — Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Financial failures can lead to a lack of credit which in turn can choke off investment and growth.
    — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The Fed has raised rates aggressively for the past year to try to choke off inflation.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 6 Feb. 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
  • But the advancing Russian army threatens to choke off key supply routes.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Unfortunately, reeds were allowed to choke off this stream.
    — Steven Franck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Will the states respond by choking off all charter school development?
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • States and federal agencies are hoping to choke off this source of global warming fuel.
    — Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • In 2000, however, a dam upstream choked off the flow, and the spray faded away.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
  • The strait has been largely impassable since the war broke out, stranding vessels and choking off a key supply chain.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 3 May 2026
  • 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 birthdate phaseout slowly chokes off the supply to tomorrow’s teenagers.
    — Katharine Silbaugh, STAT, 19 May 2026
  • Drought has played a role but the bigger driver is the dams and wells that have sprung up nearby to support farms, choking off supply to the lake.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But the war — which led to Iran choking off the strait — has created a global oil shock, sending gas prices soaring.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 May 2026
  • His vow to keep up attacks on other Arab countries in the region and plans to choke off the world's oil supply were headlines.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Iran’s threats have choked off the oil supply that runs through the Strait of Hormuz, something that has sent oil prices soaring.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Yet the world’s rich are trying to choke off funding for new fossil fuels in developing countries.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • Sorgi says that would choke off a lot of imports and turn many of next year's Fourth of July displays into duds.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 28 June 2025
  • Policies that wind up choking off the export of EV wrecks would in some ways be a shame, Slattery says.
    — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Since the war began, Iran has mined the strait, fired on ships, choked off traffic, and caused the price of oil and other commodities to soar.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026

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