noose
IPA: nˈus
noun
- An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso.
verb
- (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.
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Examples of "noose" in Sentences
- Process is a leash, not a noose.
- And now I wait for the hangman's noose.
- The noose was made by the hair of a baby.
- To catch or entrap with a noose or lasso.
- A rope with a noose for hanging malefactors.
- Ireland then strangled Collier with a noose.
- Nooses and swastikas faxed to the lawmakers
- The loop of the noose was tightened around the muzzle of the horse.
- His hands hold the axe, the noose, the sugar cane stem and the mango.
- His hands hold the single tusk, the elephant goad, the noose and the mango.
- They also show us what they describe as a noose, where they say the Arabs hanged hundreds of prisoners.
- For republicans hanging a noose is a prank and suggesting shooting the first real contender black president is benign ...
- There are still, of course, sectors of American society where the crude racism of the epithet and the noose is casually accepted.
- The noose is seen as a symbol of lynching, the practice of white mobs executing blacks, sometimes under the eyes of passive law-enforcement officials.
- No sirree bob, a noose is a racially charged reminder of a small period in history, characterised by a stereotypical image ... even when it isn't actually a noose.
- A noose is hastily slung over a rafter and after George does a short dance on it, he is convinced to donate his help and ends up beating everybody to the Indian camp.
- “Mr. President,” he projected in a baritone voice that radiated both power and confidence, “the Eridani have retreated into a small defensive shell, and our noose is tightening.”
- That conversation was the initial groundwork for subsequent brainstorming in the newsroom that methodically evolved into plans for a broad newsroom initiative to address what I characterize as a noose around Battle Creek's neck.
- CBS report that: A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing giggles from some passers-by and gasps of outrage from others.
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