How to Use gallows in a Sentence
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Having built its gallows, the play proceeds to hang someone on it.
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New York Times,
2022-04-21
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Outside the Capitol someone set up a gallows with a noose.
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David Klepper,
oregonlive,
2022-01-02
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Outside, makeshift gallows stood, complete with sturdy wooden steps and the noose.
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Anchorage Daily News,
2021-01-11
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When someone picks a wrong letter, another body part is drawn on the stick person hanging on the gallows.
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Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2022-01-31
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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.
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Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
2021-04-15
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Harris and Biden took their oaths of office in the same place that a crowd strung up a noose and gallows earlier this month.
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Katherine Doyle,
Washington Examiner,
2021-01-20
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The hangman's gallows sitting out there on our National Mall.
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CNN,
2021-07-27
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There was only one gallows built in the shape of the triangle, and that, the duo determined, was the location of the Rip.
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Olivia Truffaut-Wong,
refinery29.com,
2021-03-30
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Her assignment: The ‘Stick, already consigned to the gallows.
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Gary Peterson,
The Mercury News,
2017-02-18
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In January, a mob erected a gallows on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
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Washington Post,
2021-03-19
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The gallows-humor joke in the wind industry this week was that Wall Street could soon become the biggest wind player in Texas.
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Russell Gold,
WSJ,
2021-03-04
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On the Mall, a makeshift wooden gallows, with stairs and a rope, had been constructed near a statue of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Luke Mogelson,
The New Yorker,
2021-01-15
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Albert Parsons said, standing under a gallows on Hubbard Street.
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Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2022-05-13
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Insurrectionists littered the ground with debris and erected a gallows with a noose on the lawn outside the Capitol building.
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Livia Gershon,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2022-01-06
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The gallows are not usually a place for nuance, but the play asks big questions about crime and punishment without shoving the audience toward an answer.
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Christopher Barnard,
Vogue,
2022-06-09
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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.
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Gulnaz Khan,
National Geographic,
2020-10-31
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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.
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Alamin Yohannes,
EW.com,
2020-08-07
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Members of the mob erected gallows on the National Mall, overran security, and set off to hang the vice president.
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Steve Volk,
Rolling Stone,
2021-05-12
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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.
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Chris Cannon,
The New Republic,
2021-01-14
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Richard Devonport has summoned Poirot to solve his brother’s murder and save Richard’s fiancée, Helen, from the gallows.
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Sophie Hannah,
Star Tribune,
2020-09-11
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The child laborers in the Beggar King’s sweatshop have been making Maladie Barbies that come complete with their own gallows.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
2021-05-09
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But as rioters called for his execution and erected gallows outside the Capitol building, Pence refused to leave the Capitol complex.
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Lindsay Chervinsky,
The Conversation,
2022-06-17
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Facebook officials have noted that more extreme content flowed through smaller social media platforms in the buildup to the Capitol attack, including detailed planning on bringing guns or building gallows that day.
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ProPublica,
2022-01-04
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The disaster fueled angry demonstrations Saturday where protesters set up gallows and nooses in central Beirut and held mock hanging sessions of cut-out cardboard images of top Lebanese officials.
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Sarah El Deeb,
chicagotribune.com,
2020-08-09
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Sanctuary was a popular destination for jailbreakers, but those already convicted were ineligible, a fact unhappily learned by men who, having been inadequately hanged, revived after the gallows and fled to a church.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
The New York Review of Books,
2020-11-03
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Journalists, of course, are no strangers to gallows humor and might once have laughed along.
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Barbara Starr,
CNN,
21 May 2017
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In the basement of the West Wing, gallows humor was a way to cope with the shock.
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Pat Cunnane,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2017
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Thone tosses away in one of her character’s many gallows-humor jokes).
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Brendan Kiley,
The Seattle Times,
5 May 2017
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Some White House staffers have turned to impeachment gallows humor.
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James Hohmann,
Washington Post,
18 May 2017
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For many here, slow broadband connections are a source of frustration and an inspiration for gallows humor.
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Andrew McMillen,
New York Times,
11 May 2017
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However, behind this delightful French treat lies a dark past as Buttes Chaumont was once a former trash dump and gallows ground.
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Josh Lee,
Vogue,
31 Aug. 2017
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The movie’s sharp scares, gallows humor, and insidious intelligence are informed by the sensibility, and insistent paranoia, that lurks within the hearts of blacks who must navigate white spaces.
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Brandon Harris,
The New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2017
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Now, amid all the hand-wringing, anger and exasperation, the crisis is bolstering Brazil’s tradition of gallows humor, fueling a mix of satire and existential resignation.
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Simon Romero,
New York Times,
26 May 2017
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Lisa Larson-Walker/Slate Academics are keen observers of the absurd in their professional lives—or so their many ironic, often gallows-humor social media accounts suggest.
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Colleen Flaherty,
Slate Magazine,
10 Feb. 2017
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