Example sentences for: gallows

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

  • True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor.

  • 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."

  • He tells this story with a vividness that I did not expect of him, with insight, some irony, and touches of gallows 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.

  • Kids always love the Salem Witch Museum, a diorama show that tells the story of the witch hysteria when 19 people went to the gallows.


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