Sentence examples for a noose over from inspiring English sources

"Governor Malloy is holding a noose over our heads," she said.

The shah dangles from a noose over a sour-faced mob in turbans.

In Texas, one district attorney formed a "Silver Needle Society" while another one hung a noose over her office door.

In another video, two men look at each other in disgust and then one slips a noose over his head.

Nigel Evans, a Conservative member of the culture, media and sport select committee, said the Olympic rings were "hanging like a noose over future generations".

But in his acclaimed one-man show "I, Malvolio," the British performer Tim Crouch flings a noose over a ceiling pipe, slides a chair underneath and blames everyone for his lot in life — audience members included.

Robert closed his eyes on competing images: a noose being tossed over a beam; a muzzle being pressed to his temple.

Then a rope, tied like a noose, went over the statue's head.

Our group was mesmerized by the gallows room, with a noose centered over a trapdoor in the floor.

He recalled a troubled co-worker who returned to work at the Midtown South Precinct months after attempting suicide to find a noose draped over his locker and razor blades taped to its door.

Once his body was still, a noose was slipped over his head, and Hays shoved his boot into Donald's face.