(n.) A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
(v. t.) To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soft tissue forming a noose, or interposed in the joint, is implicated.
(2) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(3) Rachel Dolezal's deception: her 'black' identity doesn't make sense – or make her black Read more Dolezal has been a regular face at local demonstrations and on TV channels, and has made the news on numerous occasions for the graphic hate mail she has received, including nooses left at her home.
(4) I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.” From a Times article calling for the return of capital punishment.
(5) The noose and the stake sent the worst offenders to hell.
(6) The previous week, campaigners carried a mock gallows with a noose labelled for Merkel.
(7) Police will probably continue to tighten the noose on more black markets.
(8) She accused the three states of putting a “noose” around civilians in the city, asking: “Are you incapable of shame?
(9) The noose tightens around Libya as competing ideological and territorial claims are staked on it.
(10) Graham also called for the missile shield to be revived, and advocated the creation of “a democratic noose around Putin’s Russia” through aid to neighbouring countries such as Georgia.
(11) It is also about publicly remembering the many people who died alone on dark highways or on the banks of the Alabama River at night, with nooses around their necks or guns at their heads, thinking that they would be lost forever.
(12) To many liberals these are turkeys voting for Christmas or lemmings off for a leap; the condemned tying the noose for their own execution.
(13) In advance of an eventual assault on Mosul , peshmerga fighters are tightening the noose around the city with the US-led coalition’s role on the ground becoming more visible.
(14) The US and Europe are seeking to tighten the noose on Moscow with sanctions, while maintaining top-level discussions and insisting there is a way in which Putin can change course.
(15) Fifty years on, the debate over the penalty for murder – what replaces the hangman’s noose – rumbles on.
(16) Noose occlusion of a coronary artery produced detectable NADH fluorescence in 15 seconds in the subtended ischemic epicardium.
(17) Fear of another fatal confrontation was clear in the phone calls that were broadcast live on the internet earlier on Wednesday after the FBI effectively squeezed the noose around the remaining members of the militia.
(18) Efforts to persuade the European Central Bank to tear up its own rulebook and loosen the noose – by easing limits on cash flows to Greek banks – have fallen on stony ground.
(19) A part of the internal leaf forms with three cords this noose and builds so a sphincter-like closure mechanism, which reduces the size of the deep inguinal ring by a local erection of the transversalis fascia.
(20) And, inevitably, these nooses overlapped: journalism lost interest because it felt the show was over which, in turn, hastened the end.
Noosed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Noose
Example Sentences:
(1) Soft tissue forming a noose, or interposed in the joint, is implicated.
(2) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(3) Rachel Dolezal's deception: her 'black' identity doesn't make sense – or make her black Read more Dolezal has been a regular face at local demonstrations and on TV channels, and has made the news on numerous occasions for the graphic hate mail she has received, including nooses left at her home.
(4) I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.” From a Times article calling for the return of capital punishment.
(5) The noose and the stake sent the worst offenders to hell.
(6) The previous week, campaigners carried a mock gallows with a noose labelled for Merkel.
(7) Police will probably continue to tighten the noose on more black markets.
(8) She accused the three states of putting a “noose” around civilians in the city, asking: “Are you incapable of shame?
(9) The noose tightens around Libya as competing ideological and territorial claims are staked on it.
(10) Graham also called for the missile shield to be revived, and advocated the creation of “a democratic noose around Putin’s Russia” through aid to neighbouring countries such as Georgia.
(11) It is also about publicly remembering the many people who died alone on dark highways or on the banks of the Alabama River at night, with nooses around their necks or guns at their heads, thinking that they would be lost forever.
(12) To many liberals these are turkeys voting for Christmas or lemmings off for a leap; the condemned tying the noose for their own execution.
(13) In advance of an eventual assault on Mosul , peshmerga fighters are tightening the noose around the city with the US-led coalition’s role on the ground becoming more visible.
(14) The US and Europe are seeking to tighten the noose on Moscow with sanctions, while maintaining top-level discussions and insisting there is a way in which Putin can change course.
(15) Fifty years on, the debate over the penalty for murder – what replaces the hangman’s noose – rumbles on.
(16) Noose occlusion of a coronary artery produced detectable NADH fluorescence in 15 seconds in the subtended ischemic epicardium.
(17) Fear of another fatal confrontation was clear in the phone calls that were broadcast live on the internet earlier on Wednesday after the FBI effectively squeezed the noose around the remaining members of the militia.
(18) Efforts to persuade the European Central Bank to tear up its own rulebook and loosen the noose – by easing limits on cash flows to Greek banks – have fallen on stony ground.
(19) A part of the internal leaf forms with three cords this noose and builds so a sphincter-like closure mechanism, which reduces the size of the deep inguinal ring by a local erection of the transversalis fascia.
(20) And, inevitably, these nooses overlapped: journalism lost interest because it felt the show was over which, in turn, hastened the end.