noose

By handing Banks a length of rope instead, and standing by as she prettily ties it into a noose, they invite the audience to conclude that the many sins of “Top Model” weren’t merely systemic.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

A relative told us it was "like a noose around our necks", and another expressed frustration that "you can't give them away".

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

Despite waves of Carthaginian resistance and the increasing hostility of Roman elites, who resented his precocious record and thirst for glory, Scipio tightened the noose around Carthage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

And the methods of transport through these new subdivisions, across the sprawl, is the automobile, the noose around the neck of the earth, and ultimately, the Dreamers themselves.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Coast Guard had signed off on a policy on November 13 that downgraded the classification of symbols such as swastikas and nooses, according to a report from the Washington Post.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025

In it, singer Yawar Abdal imagines a Kashmir where people, blindfolded and with nooses around their necks, are liberated amid chants of “All shall be free.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2022

Adding to the turmoil is disagreement about even some of the most basic facts of the case, like how many nooses have been found.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Critics allege the industry has serious safety problems, with dangers posed by nooses, hair dryers and poor handling by groomers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

Night approached; confident in our nooses we left the place, proposing to return next morning and complete the capture—but we reckoned without our host.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth

You would see them trundle up and down Spinner's Walk trailing wires and lights, their gaze rolling towards the hospital gates on Clarence Road, their necks noosed by camera straps.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2014

You would see them trundle up and down Spinner’s Walk trailing wires and lights, their gaze rolling toward the hospital gates on Clarence Road, their necks noosed by camera straps.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

The astonished fishermen noosed the two animals, hauled them aboard, took them ashore.

From Time Magazine Archive

I willed them to move, but my conscience noosed around my ankles and pulled down hard.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

He, too, is safely noosed," said he to himself; "he can never procure the money.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag

Mitchum is snagging coconuts and noosing turtles; Deborah is roasting breadfruit and thatching a sail.

From Time Magazine Archive

A temporary substitute for a curb is made by noosing a string, and putting the noose round the horse's lower jaw.

From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton

Young Marc-Antonio Grilli, the cleverest lad in the parish at noosing any wild animal, is our patron of the feast.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Carefully climbing on, I set to work, and succeeded in noosing four of each species.

From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat

Also he had a horrid habit of noosing moccasins for sport; and it would have been easy for him to introduce one to me while I slept.

From Police!!! by Henry Hutt