I squeezed his hands, my throat suddenly too tight to allow speech.
She should have said yes, but the word lodged in her tight throat.
"Yes," she whispered and swallowed hard in a tight throat.
"There can never be anything between us," she said, forcing the words past her tight throat.
De Carlo squeezed out a few words through a tight throat.
"But I have to try," she whispered, her throat suddenly tight.
The one word was all Uhura could manage to get past her tight throat.
Alex swallowed, then got out a whisper through a tight throat.
Finally I could force something past my tight throat.
The words came out hoarse, forced through a tight throat.
