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

The reader feels the noose tighten and shares Ms. Chang’s distress as it becomes evident after 2018 that she can no longer visit her home country—or her mother’s deathbed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

"You get pretty much zero chances with these guys," says Ewin as he attempts to loop a noose around the jaw of the agitated reptile.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 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

Lunday said the reports of labeling swastikas and nooses as divisive were “categorically false.”

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

“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 Howard, J. J.

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 Lanes have got that will as sure as my name's Jonas Aldridge, and have been waiting to produce it till they had him fast noosed.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Landor, Walter Savage

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

These consisted of long thongs of reindeer-skin, and also hempen cords of the manufacture of civilized men, for noosing the reins, and of bowls, kits, &c., to receive the milk.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

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 Galton, Francis, Sir