hangman
Example Sentences
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2023
Seems that “Wheel” is just hangman, but pricier.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2019
His sensitive eyes gazed gravely at the surrounding faces, swerved up to the shadowy hangman, then downward to his own manacled hands.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
