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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unchoke.

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Examples

  • Yet these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression are only health or fortunate constitution.

    Representative Men 2006

  • Like a salamander he passes across the burning deck with unscathed feet, and glides through the stifling smoke with unchoked breath.

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

  • Think of the wonder of that day when the little fountain laughed again, its pipe unchoked and its overflow trickling neatly away under the hidden terra-cotta drains!

    Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

  • The slang words had suddenly struck her as foolish and silly, and out of place in a country where the syllables of words sound sonorously, and time passes like a slow moving river with its banks unchoked with

    Desert Love Joan Conquest

  • I set off at day break for London; plunged into the tiresome details of legateeship; and after a fortnight's toil, infinite weariness, and longings to breathe in any atmosphere unchoked by a million of chimneys, to sleep where no eternal rolling of equipages should disturb my rest, and to enjoy society without being trampled on by dowagers fifty deep, I saw my cottage roof once more.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various

  • Yet these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression are only health or fortunate constitution.

    Uses of Great Men 1914

  • Like a salamander he passes across the burning deck with unscathed feet, and glides through the stifling smoke with unchoked breath.

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 1911

  • Together, very cautiously, they explored the three sides of the platform still unchoked by ruins.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • Then, one day -- God knows when -- the sky widened behind the trees, and I saw the blue flank of a hill unchoked by timber.

    The Reckoning 1899

  • Breaking my gun, he slipped the mutilated ammunition into the unchoked barrel.

    The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

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