gallows

Example Sentences

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Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

For local establishments, the newly offered specials are part gallows humor, part business gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

The last woman believed to have been executed in England for witchcraft may have avoided the gallows, according to new research.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024

The ring was just an ordinary iron ring tied to a kind of gallows by a thread.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White