How to Use noose in a Sentence

noose

noun
  • Hanna placed the noose over Bethea’s neck.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Just imagine a white person putting a noose in their front yard.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Bags full of nooses had already been found.
    — Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The noose was tightening, and yet no one thought there’d be a war.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Another cuts and pastes her face next to a noose and a smiley face.
    — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Now she is stuck with three long term leases choking her cash flow like a noose around her neck.
    — George Deeb, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Smollett claimed the men put a noose around his neck and poured a chemical on him.
    — CBS News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The police got involved and the noose was removed, but no charges were filed.
    — Howard Fishman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Fulks carved four letters into his chest, then tried to hang himself with a noose.
    — Chiara Eisner, NPR, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Selva raised her chin, causing the length of rope above the noose to go slightly slack.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • That car was later found abandoned as well, but the noose was tightening.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 May 2022
  • The incident ended with a noose around his neck and bleach poured on him, police said.
    — Jason Hanna, CNN, 29 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
  • Josh has a noose around his neck, which is tied to a scaffolding structure in the backyard.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The report noted her fingers were caught between the neck and the noose when she was found dead.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Within a week, five more noose-like hanging ropes were found on the construction site.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Those laurels quickly become a noose.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • 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
  • China’s shutdowns are a big knot that is becoming a noose in the supply chain.
    — Lora Cecere, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Nothing was trapped at the time, but that wasn't the case earlier this week when a wild fox was seen caught in its noose.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The day after the noose was found, the employee in question was removed from his job.
    — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • At the time, McGhee was aware of other nooses found at the complex.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • But the noose is straining against his neck, and he's surrounded by swinging, deceased mates.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Underneath was a photograph of a noose.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026
  • In 2006, his parents received a death threat and found a noose in their mailbox.
    — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The contractor later was accused of treason and found a noose outside his house.
    — Amara Walker, Chris Youd and Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 June 2021
  • And the mob reportedly cheered when a noose on a nearby shed was placed around Harvey’s neck.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 June 2022

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