noose

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.

From Barron's

If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.

From Barron's