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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:

He moves on to talking about his redesigns for lethal-injection systems, gas chambers, and even a gallows, while underneath, Caleb Sampson provides macabre funhouse music and wistful calliope waltzes.
True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor.
In Washington, this kind of anecdote constitutes 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.
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."