Words similar to hangman

Example sentences for: hangman

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

47. squeezer--the hangman's noose.
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."
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.