choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Aristide, worker of miracles, strutted by her side choke-full of vanity.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
There are two other tanks not much smaller, all choke-full.
From The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Why, at his age I was choke-full of maxims.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles
I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day—not an empty chamber in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David
The ambassador's bag is filled not with protocols and treaties, but with fish-sauce or pickled walnuts; the little sack—marked "most important"—being choke-full of Russian cigarettes.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
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