Sentences with phrase «choking on smoke»

It's hard to swallow that, especially right now when a lot of the western U.S. is choking on smoke.

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These measures also suggest Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than the combined risks of drowning, fire and smoke, stabbing, choking on food, airplane crashes, animal attacks, and forces of nature.
He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke - choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»
Starting to Choke on all this secondhand smoke.
Control (n = 27): attention control (AC); mothers in the AC group were given educational information about infant safety including information on fall prevention, poisoning, fires, and burns during the first visit, about choking / aspiration, suffocation, drowning, and smoking during the second visit, and about car seat safety during the final visit.
The bill, approved by parliament on Tuesday, has won praise from politicians and environmentalists as a bold move to tackle a decades - long problem of smoke from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia choking the city state.
As cannons boom across the open fields and bullets scream through the choking smoke, boys, brothers and former countrymen square up on the front lines.
There really isn't a bad choice in the range, the standard cars offer more than enough grunt while the Bathurst editions add some dynamic prowess and in the case of the S, an addictive supercharger whine into the mix as well as enough straight line performance to keep those pesky modern sports cars choking on your tyre smoke.
SIMILES, METAPHORS, AND FOOD By Debbie Burke A few days ago, after a brief but welcome rain shower washed the choking wildfire smoke from the Big Skies of Montana, I visited a friend's cherry orchard on Flathead Lake.
A plume of smoke hit the glass on the inside and bounced back to choke me.
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