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

Last Updated: 3 May 2024