Crossword-Solution: CHOKES
We have 15 clues for the answer “CHOKES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fails during a crucial moment | 1 answer |
| Fails in the clutch | 1 answer |
| Forgets one's lines, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Garottes | 1 answer |
| Has trouble breathing | 1 answer |
| Is overcome with emotion, with "up" | 1 answer |
| Performs way worse than is expected, say | 1 answer |
| Throttles | 1 answer |
| Training collars | 1 answer |
| Folds under pressure | 2 answers |
| Buys the farm | 2 answers |
| Fails under pressure | 3 answers |
| Stifles. | 5 answers |
| Gags | 6 answers |
| Suppresses | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHOKES (5)
But you've no remorseful qualms or pangs When you kneel by the grizzly's lair, On that conical bullet your sole chance hangs, 'Tis the weak one's advantage fair, And the shaggy giant's terrific fangs Are ready to crush and tear; Should you miss, one vision of home and friends, Five words of unfinished prayer, Three savage knife stabs, so your sport ends In the worrying grapple that chokes and rends;-- Rare sport, at least, for the bear.
Browning to be science falsely so called, a new ignorance founded upon knowledge, ‘A lamp’s death when, replete with oil, it chokes.’ To this effect argues the prophet John in ‘A Death in the Desert’, anticipating with the deep prevision of a dying man the doubts and questionings of modern days.
Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen, And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
But on Saturday suddenly the whole county disgorges itself upon the place, and a perfect flood of black peasantry pours through the streets, fills the stores, blocks the sidewalks, chokes the thoroughfares, and takes full possession of the town.
Such companions befit the season of frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting snow-storm chokes up the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone wall to stone wall.
Quotes with CHOKES (3)
Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.
Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow." You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich." You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?""Even now," the woman says firmly.
When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God's word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1962–2021).