How to Use hangman in a Sentence

hangman

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Schools in the power conferences might dodge the Olympic sports hangman.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
  • Jim probably cared too much and most definitely was too smart to hang around for the hangman.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Eleven white men stood on the gallows with him—the hangman, the trigger-puller, officers of the law, the priest.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Kids can doodle, scribble, draw, and play tic-tac-toe, hangman, or any number of drawing games with these tablets.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Just before her purge, Lively had posted a series of pictures of a game of hangman.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 2 May 2018
  • The former cop also claimed to have found a hangman’s noose under Epstein’s mattress.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • The company also referred to hangman as a common children’s game.
    — OregonLive.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The hangman's gallows sitting out there on our National Mall.
    — CNN, 27 July 2021
  • Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The comments appeared with an image of a hangman’s noose, according to the newspaper.
    — Midland Reporter-Telegram, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2020
  • But before the sentence could be carried out, Muharrami was suddenly spared the hangman’s rope.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Leach tweeted out a coronavirus meme containing a hangman’s noose, which some construed to be a depiction of lynching.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Fearing the hangman’s noose, Kenton fled westward and changed his name to Simon Butler.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2017
  • The Louisville media later reported that the hangman Hash had been arrested fourteen times in the past four years.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Albert Pierrepoint, the official hangman, could not have executed a more swift and sudden drop.
    — Andrew Morton, Town & Country, 13 Feb. 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
  • Zimbabwe's last execution was in 2005, partly because no one was willing to be the hangman.
    — Farai Mutsaka, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Zimbabwe’s last execution was in 2005, partly because no one was willing to be the hangman.
    — Farai Mutsaka, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Harry is England's second-best hangman, and he's faced with a crisis as Britain abolishes hanging as a form of execution.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • More than a hundred thousand people have also disappeared in the government's detention network, with many believed to have died through neglect or the hangman's noose.
    — Louisa Loveluck, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • From the fabulous Hiromi to a dark stage comedy about hangmen to a breathtaking exhibit about migration, there’s a lot to see and do this weekend.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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