How to Use gallows in a Sentence

gallows

noun
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  • He was sentenced to death on the gallows.
  • Now reduced to a stump, the white oak tree that once served as a gallows sits in the cellar of a bar on Main Street.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Chavoshi, 42, has managed to help save more than 50 people from the gallows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • In January, a mob erected a gallows on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Outside the Capitol someone set up a gallows with a noose.
    — David Klepper, oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2022
  • There was only one gallows built in the shape of the triangle, and that, the duo determined, was the location of the Rip.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • On the Mall, a makeshift wooden gallows, with stairs and a rope, had been constructed near a statue of Ulysses S. Grant.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Having built its gallows, the play proceeds to hang someone on it.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Harris and Biden took their oaths of office in the same place that a crowd strung up a noose and gallows earlier this month.
    — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Her assignment: The ‘Stick, already consigned to the gallows.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
  • The gallows-humor joke in the wind industry this week was that Wall Street could soon become the biggest wind player in Texas.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Outside, makeshift gallows stood, complete with sturdy wooden steps and the noose.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Though beaten and robbed, Chung Sun was among the more fortunate; as many as 19 of his countrymen died in the riot, some of them lynched from makeshift gallows.
    — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Some of the rioters were reportedly looking for Mike Pence, with plans to hang him from a makeshift gallows at the foot of Capitol Hill.
    — Chris Cannon, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
  • When someone picks a wrong letter, another body part is drawn on the stick person hanging on the gallows.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
  • One post showed a Civil War-era picture of a gallows with more than two dozen nooses and hooded figures waiting to be hanged.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • That, coupled with the executioners in Alice’s dreams, point to the gallows.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • While the core five went to the gallows, other sentences were commuted to transportation to Australia, and one man was released.
    — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • The hangman's gallows sitting out there on our National Mall.
    — CNN, 27 July 2021
  • Others constructed a gallows with a noose outside the Capitol.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • These domestic terrorists erected makeshift gallows — complete with a noose — in the lawn of the US Capitol Building.
    — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Richard Devonport has summoned Poirot to solve his brother’s murder and save Richard’s fiancée, Helen, from the gallows.
    — Sophie Hannah, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Insurrectionists littered the ground with debris and erected a gallows with a noose on the lawn outside the Capitol building.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Amplifying the ample racist symbols were numerous nooses and even a gallows on the hallowed grounds of the People's House.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Members of the mob erected gallows on the National Mall, overran security, and set off to hang the vice president.
    — Steve Volk, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2021
  • Over several months, a group of young girls claiming to be possessed by the devil condemned a score of men and women to the gallows in one of history’s most infamous witch hunts.
    — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Some demonstrators erected mock gallows, a key symbol of the demonstrations.
    — Ghazi Balkiz, Ben Wedeman and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The child laborers in the Beggar King’s sweatshop have been making Maladie Barbies that come complete with their own gallows.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 May 2021
  • Also, my experience with people who have lived through very dark things do have [a] great sense of humor often, and very often in the middle of darkness, there's a kind of gallows' humor.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The gallows were erected in the same place where several people were hanged more than 100 years ago by the then ruling Ottoman Empire for revolting against Istanbul.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 8 Aug. 2020

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