Wondering how to use Chokehold in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as stranglehold or grip.
Chokehold meaning
- A grappling hold around a person's neck, especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and restricting breathing.
- A powerful and restrictive control or influence over something.
Synonyms of Chokehold
Using Chokehold
- The main meaning on this page is: A grappling hold around a person's neck, especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and restricting breathing. | A powerful and restrictive control or influence over something.
- Useful related words include: stranglehold, grip, grasp, clutches.
- In the example corpus, chokehold often appears in combinations such as: chokehold on, in chokehold, the chokehold.
Context around Chokehold
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 15 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chokehold
- In this selection, "chokehold" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, corporate, fatal, glaring, robbing, dreamer and years stand out and add context to how "chokehold" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in a chokehold by a and a corporate chokehold robbing artists. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chokehold" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and accountancy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chokehold
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Snap mare into a chokehold, Dreamer fights out for a second. (11 words)
Garner was unarmed when he was put in a chokehold by a police officer and died. (16 words)
A judge vacated that chokehold years ago, and since then, she’s been a free woman. (16 words)
That’s why it’s important to pay attention to the tragedy of Jordan Neely and to the man who killed him with a chokehold on a New York City subway train on May 1, Daniel Penny. (37 words)
The incident has led to calls for the man who put Neely in the chokehold to be arrested, and for the city to do more for the homeless and those who are struggling with mental illness. (36 words)
As Neely lay face down on the subway car’s floor, still wrapped in the chokehold, at least one bystander can be heard on the video urging restraint, warning that they might be killing him. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
As Neely lay face down on the subway car’s floor, still wrapped in the chokehold, at least one bystander can be heard on the video urging restraint, warning that they might be killing him.
As the death toll from Israeli airstrikes mounts, a humanitarian crisis is rapidly spiraling amid warnings that people are at risk of starvation as Israel tightens its chokehold on the territory.
A viral video showed the former Marine, identified as Daniel Penny, putting 30-year-old Jordan Neely in a chokehold on May 1 while they rode on an F train in Manhattan.
Garner was put in a chokehold by a New York police officer, and told the officer 11 times that he was unable to breath.
Garner was unarmed when he was put in a chokehold by a police officer and died.
It is yet another reminder that cinema is locked in a corporate chokehold, robbing artists of the ability even to flail about in style anymore.
On 1 May, Mr Penny placed the 30-year-old man in a fatal chokehold for several minutes on an F train car that stopped at the Broadway-Lafayette platform in Manhattan.
Regardless, the next issue shows Mephisto's chokehold on the multiversal Avengers slipping as he and Kid Thanos try deciding what to do next.
Snap mare into a chokehold, Dreamer fights out for a second.
That’s why it’s important to pay attention to the tragedy of Jordan Neely and to the man who killed him with a chokehold on a New York City subway train on May 1, Daniel Penny.
The incident has led to calls for the man who put Neely in the chokehold to be arrested, and for the city to do more for the homeless and those who are struggling with mental illness.
The Texas railway closures put a chokehold on freight moving from Mexico to the U.S., as well as grain needed to feed Mexican livestock moving south.
Things quickly escalated when the 24-year-old tried to subdue him by using what appears to be a chokehold.
While Ms. Kendrick fought back against (the inmate’s) attack, two deputies intervened to break his chokehold on her neck.
With Moscow’s attention diverted, Azerbaijan has felt emboldened to tighten its chokehold on Nagorno-Karabakh – seemingly unencumbered by any obligation to refrain from using force.
After exchanging forearm strikes, Nagata hooked Danielson into a chokehold, but Danielson spaced by hitting Nagata’s injured knee.
A judge vacated that chokehold years ago, and since then, she’s been a free woman.
And it has enabled us to witness the glaring chokehold these international manipulators have on Nigeria as a nation.
But what has everybody in a chokehold are her lyrics seemingly directed at fellow rapper Nicki Minaj.
During his arrest, the 43-year-old African American man was put in a prohibited chokehold by officer Daniel Pantaleo that ultimately killed him.
Common combinations with chokehold
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- chokehold on 17×
- in chokehold 14×
- the chokehold 8×
- chokehold by 5×
- its chokehold 4×
- chokehold that 3×
- into chokehold 3×
- put chokehold 3×
- chokehold of 3×
- has chokehold 3×