gargoyle

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

"I see a gargoyle... something horrible, disgusting," she tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

The relationship provides tension and mystery that the well-matched Kingsley and Sukowa complicate with gargoyle masks and shocks of vulnerability.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

Another modern, and whimsical, touch is the so-called businessman or yuppie gargoyle, depicting a Gothic creature with sideburns and holding a briefcase.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2021

Their faces were still the same—I guess those couldn’t get any uglier— but their bodies had shriveled into leathery brown hag bodies with bat’s wings and hands and feet like gargoyle claws.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

At the top of a design from the 1430s for the tower of the Imperial Cathedral in Frankfurt, drawn in a spirited freehand, is a group of unusually cheerful gargoyles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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

Renaissance and Medieval pieces, and the “quality camp” or “fantasy furniture” he favored — weird and whimsical pieces embellished with mythical creatures; chairs sprouting antlers, torcheres bedecked with gargoyles, commodes atop griffin feet.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 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

Completed in 1916, Delia Dell Hall boasted countless gargoyles and faces half-hidden in decades of ivy.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett