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35 examples of Throttle in a sentence

And on Sunday morning the neighbors leaf blower comes out, and I want to throttle them.
He put his hand on the throttle.
By this time you will have probably fallen asleep and why do the makers of the film have the 'mist-making' machine on full throttle in the dream sequences.
I want to time travel back to Monogram Studios and throttle someone in their 2 room front office for this sloppy musical.
I wish I could meet "Yahoo Serious" so I could personally throttle him, for this and all the other very, very, very bad movies he's ever been in.
Tania(Bay) decides to switch the brain of her lover(who is old and wrinkly) with the brain of a younger man (who is "beautiful", but stooopid), in order to make ANOTHER monster to throttle the first monster Cotten made, who is wandering around throttling people.
Well, after much exposition, and some throttling, the 2 monsters throttle each other for a bit, Tania stabs the first monster in the back, and then has sex in the flaming ruins of her mansion with the second monster - only to have him throttle her! Doh!
Watanabe's Tarantino-style slickness comes through here full throttle.
I wanted desperately to throttle the "scientists" and unseen film-makers during the course of it.
(When was the last time you rewinded a scene in a horror movie to watch it over again?...Sad isn't it?!) Before the film ends, it miraculously transforms genre yet again into full throttle action as the heroes find themselves dangling outside the lighthouse in a final showdown with the madman.
The film is full on throttle action packed all the way and I find it very entertaining to watch.
If this were real life, you'd want to throttle her -- but that's a lot of the humor here.
It goes full throttle and never lets up.
RENT opens full throttle with the cast loudly singing to show us that they are intensely angry about something, though just what they are angry about or why they feel compelled to put it into song is never made clear.
While official “spin control” is in full throttle, a growing number of thoughtful analysts are voicing concern that facile caricatures do not serve Thailand’s interests.
Damaged DemocracyNew York – Even before the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decided to throttle what little legitimacy was left of Iran’s “managed democracy,” it was a peculiar system, indeed.
Finally, under the 1987 Brady plan, debts were written down by roughly 30%, four years after the crisis hit full throttle.
As a result, it could take a while for recklessness to hit full throttle again.
Monetary and fiscal policy are working at full throttle in the US, but are muzzled in Europe.
They must succeed in inducing the oil sheikhs and other producers of fossil fuels to throttle their pumps.
ISPs would throttle traffic from ISPs that did not join the security collective, and pretty soon their customers would complain, forcing them either to join or find themselves relegated to the underworld, from which it would be hard to launch attacks because no one would accept their traffic.
But the first fell prey to a long US occupation, and the second currently faces a US-led oil-export embargo designed to throttle it financially.
They see the end of large-scale dollar-purchase programs by central banks leading not only to a decline in the dollar, but also to a spike in US long-term interest rates, which will curb consumption spending immediately and throttle investment spending after only a short lag.
So the blind alley of gene therapy has sent biotechnology heading full throttle down the road of drug development, based on the new genomics.
Instead, QE and expansionary fiscal policies should remain at full throttle until the 2% inflation target is reached.
A stronger trade balance in the late 1990s would not have added to output growth or job creation, which were running at full throttle.
As the world’s swing producer, with boundless reserves of cheaply extractable oil, Saudi Arabia can flood or throttle the market at will.
Remove constraints on what politicians can do, he implied, and all you will get are silly interventions that throttle markets and stall the engine of economic growth.
The controlocracy is now running at full throttle, with facial-, image-, and voice-recognition algorithms being used to anticipate and suppress any potential criticism of the government, and to squelch all “unofficial” information about the epidemic.
The great China scholar Perry Link has compared the CPC’s control mechanism to “the anaconda in the chandelier”: at any moment it can drop and throttle you, but you never know when this will happen.