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Example sentences for: gallows

How can you use “gallows” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The stocks also stood here and many were hanged on the gallows too.
In a front-page comment by its Washington editor, Vittorio Zucconi, La Repubblica said that Lazarus was alive in St. Louis and that the governor's act of clemency was "the flower that pushes up through the snow, the sign of a new spring after the long winter of the gallows."
Much of it is a gallows sense of humor.
As a typical example, we read that the word derrick , derived from the surname of a famous hangman, was in use for centuries as a name for the gallows.
He tells this story with a vividness that I did not expect of him, with insight, some irony, and touches of gallows humor.