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

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

If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

"It's been like a noose around our neck, ever since the route was chosen," says Ms Thacker, who has lived in her house for 38 years.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

It was the first time in my life I’d ever seen him wearing a necktie, which he always called a noose.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

I began making knots, or rather nooses or loops, in the rope, at intervals of about eighteen inches.

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

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

Poor child!—no sooner ran away from a snake of a stepfather, than she has got noosed by a tiger of a father-in-law.—Ask my lady else.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope

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 Walter Savage Landor

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

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

They were all tied to different trees by the legs, and upon approaching the spot, we found an encampment of Arabs and Moormen who had been noosing elephants for sale.

From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker