How to Use gallows in a Sentence

gallows

1 of 2 noun

• 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 are not usually a place for nuance, but the play asks big questions about crime and punishment without shoving the audience toward an answer.
  — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 9 June 2022

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gallows

2 of 2 adjective

• In the basement of the West Wing, gallows humor was a way to cope with the shock.
  — Pat Cunnane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• Journalists, of course, are no strangers to gallows humor and might once have laughed along.
  — Barbara Starr, CNN, 21 May 2017
• Some White House staffers have turned to impeachment gallows humor.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 18 May 2017
• Thone tosses away in one of her character’s many gallows-humor jokes).
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
• However, behind this delightful French treat lies a dark past as Buttes Chaumont was once a former trash dump and gallows ground.
  — Josh Lee, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
• For many here, slow broadband connections are a source of frustration and an inspiration for gallows humor.
  — Andrew McMillen, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• The forced slapstick moments are balanced with a gallows humor that pervades the entire enterprise, as the men contemplate illness, loneliness and longing.
  — Ann Hornaday, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
• 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.
  — Colleen Flaherty, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• 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.
  — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2017
• 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.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• In the basement of the West Wing, gallows humor was a way to cope with the shock.
  — Pat Cunnane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• Journalists, of course, are no strangers to gallows humor and might once have laughed along.
  — Barbara Starr, CNN, 21 May 2017
• Some White House staffers have turned to impeachment gallows humor.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 18 May 2017
• Thone tosses away in one of her character’s many gallows-humor jokes).
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
• However, behind this delightful French treat lies a dark past as Buttes Chaumont was once a former trash dump and gallows ground.
  — Josh Lee, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
• For many here, slow broadband connections are a source of frustration and an inspiration for gallows humor.
  — Andrew McMillen, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• The forced slapstick moments are balanced with a gallows humor that pervades the entire enterprise, as the men contemplate illness, loneliness and longing.
  — Ann Hornaday, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
• 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.
  — Colleen Flaherty, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• 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.
  — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2017
• 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.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 May 2017

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