NOOSE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for NOOSE, such as:

1. We might as well put our necks in a noose.
2. Every second they were slipping the noose.
3. Sikes made a running noose and called him again.
4. The bullets alone are enough to put his head in a noose.
5. I think the noose is slowly tightening on Tony and company and it's just a matter of time, really.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOOSE
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noose
 n.  loop formed in a rope by means of a slipknot so that it binds tighter as the rope is pulled; trap
Classic Sentence:
1  And as he cringed at the old man's feet, a string was slipped over his collar; the noose that old Oliver always carried with him.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  Every moment the audience slipped the noose; split up into scraps and fragments.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  Every second they were slipping the noose.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  Sikes made a running noose and called him again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  The bullets alone are enough to put his head in a noose.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
6  He has taken the bread out of our mouths by quartering soldiers on us, so that you might as well put your neck in a noose.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
7  We might as well put our necks in a noose.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
8  Yes, pride, he said to himself, turning over on his stomach and beginning to tie a noose of blades of grass, trying not to break them.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 12
9  I took a long piece of string from my pocket, and she lifted his head with the spade while I tied a noose around it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
10  My friend placed a bottle at the distance of thirty paces, and at each cast he caught the neck of the bottle in his running noose.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
Example Sentence:
1  I think the noose is slowly tightening on Tony and company and it's just a matter of time, really.
2  As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.