How to use gallows in a sentence

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• Already engaging in gallows humor, I wondered if Mattis was defecting.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry gallows humor
• Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march.2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282. From the entry death march
• Freitag up in Sixth, or maybe Ver — nay, he’s gone to the gallows.2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar’s Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry potioner
• The gallows laugh is the dying man's joke, or famous last words.2010, Eric Berne, What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, →ISBN. From the entry damber
• Laurence of Oxford went the way of all flesh on the gallows.2006, Laura Wertheimer, “Clerical Dissent, Popular Piety, and Sanctity in 14th-Century Peterborough”, in Journal of British Studies…. From the entry go the way of all flesh
• True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. . . .2005, Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry gallows humor
• A second putto with a gallows in its hand cries at the judge's feet.1973, “Analysis of Beauty: Etched and Engraved from Drawings, March 1753 [84: Plate I: Third State]”, in Sean Shesgreen, editor…. From the entry putto
• Everybody along Long Wharf knows you called him a gallows bird.1943, Esther Hoskins Forbes, Johnny Tremain. From the entry gallows bird
• Maybe ye'll not have another chance before the gallows gets ye !1911, Maurice Hewlett, The Song of Renny, page 215. From the entry lickpot
• It is from this tree that Odin hanged himself in sacrifice, making the world-tree a gallows and himself the gallows god.2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20. From the entry gallows god
• A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows.2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 30 Jun 2011. From the entry necktie party
• Yet men go into matrimony as if to the gallows.2007 February 3, Jemima Lewis, “Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media…. From the entry uxoriousness
• Before me stood not Philippe but a gallows bird no respectable citizen would want to meet up with on a lonely road.2015, Paul Steinberg, Speak You Also: A Holocaust Memoir. From the entry gallows bird
• I could see bedsteads and other furniture, rolls of bedding, pots, kettles with gallows crooks to hang them by in a fireplace.1964, Clifford Lindsey Alderman, chapter 14, in The Vengeance of Abel Wright, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, page 186. From the entry abulge
• After his execution he dangled on the gallows for 15 minutes before a soldier cut him down and the crowd tried in vain to resuscitate him.1997, Brian P. Block, John Hostettler, Hanging in the Balance, Waterside Press, page 29. From the entry Deadly Never-Green

Meaning of gallows

1. noun A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
2. noun A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
3. noun The rest for the tympan when raised.

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How do you use gallows in a sentence?

Gallows is used as a noun and adverb. For example: “Already engaging in gallows humor, I wondered if Mattis was defecting.”

What is a short sentence with gallows?

“Yet men go into matrimony as if to the gallows.”

What does gallows mean?

Gallows means a wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.