Sentence examples for noose over from inspiring English sources

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"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 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.

A flick of the wrist would flip the noose over the victim's head and it was promptly killed, before its struggles could alarm other birds nearby.

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

Cillian carried the Bog Girl onto the dance floor, her braided noose flung over his shoulder.

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.

The Bahraini king's men have razed dozens of Shia shrines and put up billboards on main roads near Sunni-populated suburbs, depicting nooses dangled over the heads of Shia leaders.

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