Noose Sentence Examples

The noose fell directly over the limb and he pulled it tight.

I wished Dan luck and thanked him again for sticking his neck in the noose on our behalf.

For small work the box can be replaced by a canvas bag secured by a special tripping noose which can be loosened when the bag has reached the ground.

In fluid movements, he shook out a noose, swung it a few times to get momentum and then threw it at the limb.

Besides the noose and the net, the arrow, the dart and the hunting pole or venabulum were frequently employed.

Capturing his neck in the noose of her arms, she kissed him passionately.

The specially-trained and equipped team hopes to safely capture the female humpback dolphin which has a tight nylon noose around its tail.

Along with several other species, notably Ctenosura acanthinura, which is omnivorous, likewise called iguana, the common iguana is much sought after in tropical America; the natives esteem its flesh a delicacy, and capture it by slipping a noose round its neck as it sits in fancied security on the branch of a tree.

I tried to ease the tension that bound the room like a noose.

Baby farmer Amelia Dyer is set to face the hangman 's noose for the murder of a baby.

Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to tighten the noose.

He slipped the noose around his neck and drew it tight against his bobbing Adam's apple.

Ben went to the pig sty and put a noose around the pig's neck and lead it down the path to the bench.

Prepare your dagger, then, or make a noose from your rope; For you must leave this light.

The women tie a noose around Joan's neck and string her up in the shower block.

Cut free, the added weight dropped them further, painfully tightening the noose on his nether regions.

Baby farmer Amelia Dyer is set to face the hangman's noose for the murder of a baby.

He is doing his same old shtick except with a noose around his neck.

The tabletop should be covered with non-slip rubber matting, and most units also have a detachable grooming arm with a slip noose to help keep the dog in place.

They are given for the fast, hard laugh and as soon forgotten, such as the cut noose - representing cutting ties with corporate jobs.

She captured his neck in the noose of her arms, directing his head down to her with a gentle touch of her hand on the back of his neck.

From their using the noose as an instrument of murder they were also frequently called Phansigars, or "noose-operators."

This is (so far) the only ' wrong ' running noose I know.

Capturing his neck in the noose of her arms, she snuggled her body close to his.

The Thugs were a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins, who in gangs of whom 10 to 200 travelled in various guises through India, wormed themselves into the confidence of wayfarers of the wealthier class, and, when a favourable opportunity occurred, strangled them by throwing a handkerchief or noose round their necks, and then plundered and buried them.