How to Use hangman in a Sentence

hangman

noun
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  • The hangman would have known how far a man needs to fall.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Across from the map was a hangman’s noose found in the walls of the old county courthouse.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The mob took him from the jail at 1:15 a.m. and led about a mile outside of Burlington to the hangman's tree.
    — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • On the other, form a hangman’s noose over the paracord.
    — Joseph Albanese, Outdoor Life, 28 May 2020
  • What’s on the box: Images of a crossword puzzle, a word search, a hangman in the desert and some sort of card game.
    — Tracey John, WIRED, 26 June 2009
  • But do not pity the poor hangman with no one to kill; his self-pity is more than sufficient.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • There was a hangman’s gallows, and there was a hemp rope tied into a noose that was placed around my neck.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Yet his brand of antiglamour and his hangman’s gaze burned steadily until the end.
    — Dwight Garner, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Just before her purge, Lively had posted a series of pictures of a game of hangman.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 2 May 2018
  • Jim probably cared too much and most definitely was too smart to hang around for the hangman.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Kids can doodle, scribble, draw, and play tic-tac-toe, hangman, or any number of drawing games with these tablets.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The first incident had been reported on April 27 when a hangman’s noose was found hanging from a steel beam on the second floor of the building.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • Fearing the hangman’s noose, Kenton fled westward and changed his name to Simon Butler.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2017
  • Among the items: a Nazi swastika pendant, and a hangman’s noose decal, a cross burning baby onesie.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2018
  • The comments appeared with an image of a hangman’s noose, according to the newspaper.
    — Midland Reporter-Telegram, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2020
  • This Cook fellow seems to have a real hangman's view of the human condition—or, at least, the condition of humans who don't look like him.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The black comedy, about what happens to Britain’s second-best hangman on the day hanging is abolished, is scheduled to run at the Atlantic from Jan. 18 through March 4.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 1 May 2017
  • The hangman's gallows sitting out there on our National Mall.
    — CNN, 27 July 2021
  • But instead of a scarf, a hangman’s knot was on the woman’s lap, an image that critics said was highly offensive and evoked the lynchings of black people in the Deep South.
    — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Langhe, about an hour south of Turin, is the land of Barolo, that grandest of Italian reds made from nebbiolo grapes, which droop from their hangman scaffolding.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Kelly, like Jim Harbaugh and Jim Tomsula before him, had to sit through a post-game press conference even as the hangman’s noose tightened around his neck.
    — Daniel Brown, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2017
  • But before the sentence could be carried out, Muharrami was suddenly spared the hangman’s rope.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • The company also referred to hangman as a common children’s game.
    — OregonLive.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Then a lifeline popped into our inbox: The parents of one of Isla’s friends suggested a Zoom chat with five of Isla’s second-grade friends to play a few rounds of virtual hangman.
    — USA Today, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The hangman’s noose has come to symbolize brutality in the US and its history of lynchings and hatred toward Black people.
    — Isa Kaufman Geballe, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In America, the hangman's noose has come to symbolize a deplorable act of brutality, along with unbound...
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 26 May 2021
  • Leach tweeted out a coronavirus meme containing a hangman’s noose, which some construed to be a depiction of lynching.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Zimbabwe’s last execution was in 2005, partly because no one was willing to be the hangman.
    — Farai Mutsaka, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Göring cheated the hangman when a sympathetic American officer slipped him a cyanide capsule the night before.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023

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