All steamy smoke choked off the flames.
The dry spell choked off the town's supply of water.
The concern is that if we do not re-start lending in this country, our recovery will be choked off before it even begins.
Our guerrillas choked off the enemy's supplies.
If business lending stays choked off, hiring will suffer.
With access to credit all but choked off and global demand falling, firms are keen for any help they can get.
He got choked off for doing something wrong.
Researchers didn't explore whether housework reached a point of diminishing returns — where time on chores expanded so much that it choked off intimacy.
And worse, it choked off the free flow of ideas.
We choked off some investment.
I had a white handkerchief in my pocket, and I jerked it out and started waving it out the window on my side. Then my breath choked off. I saw the sharp, hairpin turn, and I knew he was going too fast to make it.
High prices have choked off demand.
A huge one near the East Pacific Rise erupted in 1991, releasing molten lava that basically paved the seafloor and choked off the geyser, obliterating the vent creatures.
The dry spell choked off the supply of water in that area.
