How to Use noose in a Sentence

noose

noun
  • The mob wrapped a noose around the man’s neck, threw the rope over the tree, and hauled Randolph’s body off the ground.
    Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The men around him guffawed at their joke: The noose around David’s neck hadn’t been tied.
    Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • She was wrapped in carpet with a noose around her neck.
    Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
  • The noose was tightening, and yet no one thought there’d be a war.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • At the time, McGhee was aware of other nooses found at the complex.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The police got involved and the noose was removed, but no charges were filed.
    Howard Fishman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • At 6:30 the next morning, he was found with a bedsheet tied around his neck like a noose.
    New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Berezovsky was found dead on the bathroom floor of his UK home in 2013 with a noose around his neck.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Tired of all the men in the birthing rooms trying to slip the noose of paternity—were there so many?
    Nicole Krauss, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The dogs of war were baying, bloody chaos was let loose, And high above the rabble rose a scaffold and a noose.
    John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Smollett claimed the men put a noose around his neck and poured a chemical on him.
    CBS News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • In the summer of 2018, Mr. Statz’s son Ethan found him in the haymow, fashioning a noose.
    Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But to be a Jew in Paris in the late 1930s is to live within the loop of an ever-tightening noose.
    Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • Another cuts and pastes her face next to a noose and a smiley face.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In 2006, his parents received a death threat and found a noose in their mailbox.
    New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Among those who took the noose were mostly vendors (36%) and tradesmen (37%).
    Priya Dharshini, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2021
  • One painting that appears in the film has a yellow noose on a body with a fist clutching it.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The day after the noose was found, the employee in question was removed from his job.
    Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • In the trailer, Ian and Jamie are seen being called to the front lines while Claire, similar to the first look tease, at one point faces the noose.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
  • At a race that month, the door pull of Wallace's garage was found to be tied into a noose, sparking an FBI probe.
    Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • One of the mob members holding a rope taunted the teen before the noose was tied to Choate’s neck and his body tossed over the balcony.
    Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • The incident ended with a noose around his neck and bleach poured on him, police said.
    Jason Hanna, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Claire is wanted for murder, and the trailer features a glimpse of her at the gallows with a noose around her neck.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Saurologists snag lizards using a long pole with a loop of string at one end, which most call a noose.
    Erin Berger, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Hired in 2007, Malik Smith was one of the employees who said Belge tied a noose in his presence.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Outside the Capitol someone set up a gallows with a noose.
    David Klepper, oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The seventh noose was found on May 20, causing the site to shutdown for multiple days.
    Jessika Harkay, courant.com, 30 May 2021
  • Within a week, five more noose-like hanging ropes were found on the construction site.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • As Jansen spoke, an image from Scarface showing a man in a noose appeared on a large TV in the courtroom.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
  • Russia is tightening the noose on Ukrainian troops in the country's east.
    Patrick Galey, NBC News, 26 May 2022

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