How to Use choke up in a Sentence

choke up

phrasal verb

• When sharing the news on CBS, the golf icon got choked up.
  — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• Clifton got choked up talking about James’ tweet the next day.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• With two strikes, hitters would choke up and protect the plate.
  — Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• Calling it the best and worst day of his life, Combs choked up, took a beat, and wiped tears from his eyes.
  — Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2024
• The courtroom theatrics took an even sharper turn when Chaudhry herself choked up at the lectern.
  — Vulture, 14 Dec. 2023
• Looking back on that night, Emily can’t help but still get a little choked up.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• Head coach Frank Reich choked up a bit while addressing his team postgame.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2024
• Some audibly choked up at some of the more tender moments.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• Suni Lee choked up in her first interview after making the team.
  — Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Even The Idol creator Sam Levinson joined the tear fest, choking up during his post-screening thank you speech.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2023
• Thinking about Aunt Dana before Tuesday’s game, he got choked up.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• But while viewers may be getting choked up, Ian Karmel, the show’s co-head writer, says he’s been too busy to get emotional.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Emotions ran high as some students and teachers got choked up speaking to council members about the impact the cuts will have on them.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
• Dixon spoke briefly as well Thursday, standing over a courtroom table and choking up.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Looking at the photo now, Evan’s father, Wayland Strickland, choked up.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
• With only a day since his mother’s death, Isaac Newton Farris Jr. choked up a few times throughout the conference.
  — Olivia Wakim, ajc, 30 June 2023
• Homan is known to choke up in public when speaking about victims of human traffickers or drug smugglers that he's come across.
  — Mike Levine, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• She gets choked up thinking about a family who asked for a bedsheet to hang up for some privacy in an overcrowded apartment.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• This includes many of the actors, who, at the Cannes press conference on Friday, admitted to often having no idea what this movie is about, though many of them got choked up while talking about that.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 17 May 2024
• Deaux, also a Chicago native, got choked up when introducing her friend.
  — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The movie’s star, Michael Keaton, had filming abruptly shut down so Dunne could leave to be with his family, a story that Dunne still gets choked up recounting during our interview.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Coaching the actors included teaching them to hold a knife properly, using a pinch grip that chokes up on the blade for better control and curling fingers on the opposite hand like a claw, with thumb in.
  — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Another said he got choked up over the film’s scenes depicting Oppenheimer’s inner turmoil.
  — Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
• Advertisement Tarango chokes up on the phone when reminiscing about the sacrifices made by his mother and other elders in order to assert the tribe’s right to chart its own destiny.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• The Eagles player then choked up while congratulating his younger brother.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
• Similarly, a hammer drill delivers the same thrusts but is designed for drilling through tough materials that could choke up a normal cordless drill.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2024
• At the documentary’s Feb. 13 screening in Los Angeles, Lopez choked up thanking her husband in a speech that acknowledged his discomfort with the spotlight.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 17 May 2024
• Arroyo, in his concession speech at The Square Root, a cafe in Roslindale, choked up several times while addressing his family and a small group of supporters and answering questions from the press.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• While recounting his upbringing, Johnson choked up twice.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
• Jennifer Crumbley became choked up as her attorney showed a photo of her son before the shooting, particularly a photo of him at the front door before his first day of eighth grade.
  — Gina Kaufman, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024