How to Use throttle in a Sentence

throttle

1 of 2 verb

• I was so angry at what he was saying that I could have throttled him!
• Just that word, process, can throttle and snuff the life out of the subject.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
• Each drone is required to throttle, pitch, roll, yaw, and flip in each event.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• Don't let a dusty, outdated router throttle your life.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
• Neatness will kill a novel — throttle it and slowly snuff the life out of it.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• That mix of weak prices and high costs has throttled capital spending.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
• That means that the company won’t throttle your speeds based on your usage.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 21 Aug. 2021
• Snug through the thighs, throttled at the knees, close-cut at the calves, on intimate terms with the ankles.
  — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• Even good teams will sometimes come up with a stinker and lose to inferior clubs that should throttle.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
• So that really throttled things.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
• Look for high-data or unlimited plans to avoid throttling.
  — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
• Or the kind of SoC that Samsung can throttle and nobody will care.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• Span can also throttle nonurgent workloads or transfer them to other nodes in the fleet.
  — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
• How could a team that had to win their final three games just to get into the playoffs throttle a team that hadn't lost at home all year?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• Then the Heat throttled the Celtics at the start, roaring to a 3-0 series lead.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Sooners also got throttled in the paint to the tune of 56-30.
  — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• As the West throttles its science, China is racing ahead.
  — Michael Jäger, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
• But after a few minutes, the Flip pulled way back, while the Fold didn't throttle nearly as hard.
  — Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 11 Aug. 2022
• Every braking point, apex and throttle input from his previous best was overlaid on his track view.
  — Brendan Keegan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Not to mention the fact that Samsung phones were revealed to secretly throttle app speeds.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
• Rising interest rates have throttled startups’ access to cheap cash from investors over the past year.
  — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• As the four huge engines began to throttle up for takeoff, many of the men hanging on dropped away and ran alongside the aircraft.
  — Gerry Shih, Niha Masih, Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Are there data limits or throttling on rural internet plans?
  — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
• Once the cap is exceeded, the company can throttle speeds to 1Mbps.
  — PCMAG, 4 Nov. 2022
• One of its main tools to throttle inflation is raising the federal funds rate, which is the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
• His inability to stay in front of his man might be the biggest issue with Kerr throttling up his minutes.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
• Some voters like his pledge as a political newcomer to throttle the status quo.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
• After clearing their boat slips, competitors throttle forward and turn hard, kicking up a swell that sometimes wets the fans.
  — Jason Nark Kent Nishimura, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• As a result, Meta said Russia had begun to throttle its services in the country.
  — Musadiq Bidar, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
• Russia has shown a willingness to throttle access to energy during the war.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022

throttle

2 of 2 noun

• When you press a car's accelerator, it opens the throttle, and the car goes faster.
• The throttle was near full-open, and the outboard was dead.
  — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
• But jam open the throttle just off standstill and that front-end does get light.
  — New Atlas, 3 July 2026
• This is a full-throttle comeback.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
• Plus, with the old remnants out of the way, new growth can come in full throttle.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• Class 3 e-bikes can reach 28 mph but do not have a throttle.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
• That will get you to the max speed faster than waiting for the throttle to take you there.
  — ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
• If the engine is hard to start, apply half throttle.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• Just until the offense is ready to go full throttle.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
• The third has a top speed of 28 mph with no throttle assist.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
• The team flew along at full throttle for almost all of the first couple of hours.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
• Travis Kelce is living life at full throttle, both on and off the field.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2025
• The thriller starts out at a full throttle and never takes its foot off the pedal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Part-throttle shifts are smooth, and the ride is quiet and composed.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
• The only option is to go full-throttle.
  — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026
• Push forward on a lever to adjust the throttle and steer with a small wheel at the helm.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• Plus, the exhaust barks out back with little pops and bangs on throttle liftoff.
  — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
• The system also works on and off-throttle.
  — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 19 Feb. 2026
• The first class has a top speed of 20 mph and doesn’t have a throttle assist.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
• Some stays were quick stopovers; others were full-throttle escapes.
  — Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2025
• And, of course, there’s an up-and-down quickshifter for clutch-less, full-throttle gear changes.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2022
• As with many sustainable brands, there isn’t a plan for wild, full-throttle growth.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 13 Dec. 2022
• The throttle cable was a length of cord for a Venetian blind.
  — Chuck Wilcoxen, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
• The second class has a top speed of 20mph with throttle assist.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
• There are four pedal assist levels and a throttle, which all work great.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• Punch the throttle at almost any rpm and the Purosangue lunges forward in anger.
  — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Mat kept the throttle pinned as the electric sedan continued to pull.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 2026
• On the right is the shifter, throttle, and headlight auto on-off button.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
• Switching to throttle only could zip you along at top speed for 14 miles.
  — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
• Across the board, Phoenix steps on the throttle when games are hanging in the balance.
  — Shane Young, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025