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Example sentences for: hangman

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

In the Muslim world, the Pakistani daily Dawn announced a "new American doctrine of unilateral brinkmanship" by which the United States claimed to be sole "international sheriff, judge and hangman, all at one and the same time."
The Guardian carried front-page photographs of some of the instruments of torture found inside the police interrogation center--knuckle-dusters, knives, a hangman's noose, and a chainsaw.
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.
And then there was a hangman's noose--not a drawing, an actual rope noose--hanging over a passageway.
Some of these are ... hauntingly familiar growths, like catafalque trees and hangman trees, as Terry Dowling put it.