noose

You’re able to evade feeling pinched by the noose of transactional cosmopolitianism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

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

Then she hoists each dog onto a work table, attaching the animal loosely to a loop she cheerfully calls a noose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

The Zhen bird, smelling the meat, dove at Haiyi, who quickly placed a noose around its neck.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

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

The law, filed as HB0418, would institute a statewide order disallowing any symbols of hate including, but not limited to: swastikas, Confederate flags and nooses - though they can be displayed in classroom settings.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2021

Finally, arrange the nooses in such a manner that if either of them or the crutched stick is touched the latter falls, and releasing the crosspiece, the spring-stick flies up, and the bird with it.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

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

At last he noosed the pony, and slapped on the girl’s saddle and bridle.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The operation of noosing each elephant occupied altogether from half an hour to three quarters.

From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse

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