noose

Iraqi civilians initially tried to pull it down, scaling the statue to secure a noose around its neck, but were unable to dismantle it.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 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

Or consider the innumerable examples that aren’t just proposals but routine policy: the tidal wave of denied or delayed claims, the noose of restrictive networks, costly deductibles, prescription refusals and on and on.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

The villages form a ring of human settlement around the volcano, and the ring is steadily closing around the forest on its slopes, a noose that is strangling the wild habitat of the mountain.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

He had pointed to the enclaves where one group of human beings was walled off from another group, where the green lines between countries doubled back on themselves and looped into zeros, into nooses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

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

I think that when people think racism, they think of nooses and white supremacists groups.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 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

“Throw far thy nets, thy nooses, and thy snares, “And all thy treacherous skill; nor with lim'd twig “Deceive the bird; nor with strong toils the deer; “Nor hide the barbed hook with treacherous bait.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

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

The cord left the Scotchman's hand like a flash of lightning, and next moment Bombazo, who at the time was smiling and talking most volubly, was fairly noosed.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Before the trail was quite completed, it yielded one of the most exciting hunts of our trip—the noosing of a giant bushmaster—the most deadly serpent of the tropics.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

He said, and noosing a strong galley-rope To an huge column, led the cord around The spacious dome, suspended so aloft 540 That none with quiv’ring feet might reach the floor.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

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