Sentence examples for around a neck from inspiring English sources

But none of the dangling nooses would be placed around a neck on this day.

Taking her lead from Samantha Fernando's music, a piece with a thrillerish edge, the mood is unsettling, a place where a hand curls ominously around a neck before a stage blackout.

There's a little door that when removed reveals a travel pillow — you know, the kind that wraps around a neck and is just moderately more comfortable than resting your head on a shoe.

Mistakes are rare in the kink but Barkas still remembers seeing one slip that lead to a rope tightening around a neck.

Thread a purple, blue or red ribbon through it and tie, leaving enough space for hanging around a neck.

A noose is around his neck, a knife plunged into his heart.

A magnifying lens dangled from a cord around his neck, like a crude jeweler's loupe.

Bifocals hang on a chain around his neck -- a scholarly touch.

Trisha Baga hung a trophy around the neck of a potted tree.

Hales tied a ligature around the neck of a frog and cut off its head.

More than four years ago, it was a millstone around the neck of a foundering Lehman.