gargoyle
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A host of celebrity judges have to decide whether they’re seeing an elaborate cake or Halloween decor like a jack-o-lantern, a black cat and a gargoyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
Mr Palmen, 61, said: "I find the gargoyle very amusing, I'm using it as my Facebook profile picture."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023
Kimbrough also lent his voice to a gargoyle named Victor in Disney’s animated film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
His villainy is like a gargoyle — inert and thoroughly grotesque.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
But Harry was already hurtling back along the corridor and within minutes, he was saying “toffee eclairs” to Dumbledore’s gargoyle, which leapt aside, permitting Harry entrance onto the spiral staircase.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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The architect’s mischievous side comes through in countless sketches for his famous gargoyles, which achieve “both anatomical coherence and a sense of demonic vitality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
He talked about going to an art show at the studio, and he saw a piece of a bunch of gargoyles sitting on a log flying kites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Water was discharged from the roof via gargoyles which were said to crouch in agony under the weight of their load.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
Gibson had long admired Winterbottom’s work, from his photographs of the gargoyles and grotesques of Washington National Cathedral to the stonework of the Washington Monument.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
Then he’d have to swing onto a landing eighteen feet away, before making his way to the other gargoyles on which Grave and Nox now quarreled.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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