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US
/ˈɡæɫoʊz/
]
[ UK /ɡˈæləʊz/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæləʊz/ ]
NOUN
- an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
How To Use gallows In A Sentence
- We made the typical jokes about whether we would be there at the same time the next week - gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
- Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows.
- Stephen Friedman, another London gallery, will show Glasgow-based David Shrigley, an expert in gallows humor whose works include a taxidermied dog. Shopping for a New Barbed-Wire Cowboy Hat
- If found guilty, he faces the gallows. Times, Sunday Times
- That sounds heavy: in fact, this play abounds in mischievous gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
- The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
- The city's souvenir T-shirt shops are also thriving on gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
- On his final night out, gallows humour reigned supreme. The Sun
- They died in agonies on the gallows, where they were sometimes left for the birds to peck. Times, Sunday Times
- Each cylindrical mirror is balanced on the slimmest of supports: one steel wire, as thin as dental floss, that is attached to the gallowslike frame.