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gallows

[ US /ˈɡæɫoʊz/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈælə‍ʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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