gallows
Example Sentences
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The year 1777 is sometimes called the Year of the Hangman because the last three digits resemble a gallows.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”
Their side had not long come from behind to go 2-1 up against Newcastle United when gallows humour swept across the London Stadium.
From BBC
Some of the chat leading up to this game involved the gallows humour so close to the heart of most members of the Tartan Army.
From BBC
For local establishments, the newly offered specials are part gallows humor, part business gamble.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
