She should have said yes, but the word lodged in her tight throat.

He tried to speak her name, but the word lodged in his throat.

When he sent it, a lump lodged deep in his throat.

I swallowed over the hard lump that lodged in my throat.

The things she had been about to say lodged in her throat.

David felt as if he had a boxing glove lodged in his throat.

A lump lodged in her throat and she found herself unable to say anything.

It lodged in his throat as life went from the woman's eyes.

The heart that had lodged hard in his throat freed itself.

They were going to lodge in my throat and choke me if I swallowed.