gallows in English

noun
1
a structure, typically of two uprights and a crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals.
A gallows is a structure used customarily to hang criminals.
synonyms:gibbetscaffoldgallows tree
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Use "gallows" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "gallows" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "gallows", or refer to the context using the word "gallows" in the English Dictionary.

1. We're both sitting under the gallows!

2. The murderer was sent to the gallows.

3. The criminal ended up in the gallows.

4. The so - called heretic was sent to the gallows.

5. Men on their way to the gallows?

6. The murderer was sent to the gallows for his crimes.

7. The gallows cast a shadow even at night.

8. The taller letters have been named gallows characters.

9. The next sketch was one of a gallows.

10. Prohibited items should include gallows and leg irons.

11. Next a policeman puppet arrived carrying a gallows.

12. Corpses hung from gallows, heads were spiked on railings.

13. Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.

14. But a trial will result with you in the gallows.

15. So confiscate the map, and to the gallows with him!

16. Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you. 

17. He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.

18. Emotional but effective and with some memorable flashes of gallows humour.

19. The blade fell, the head fell into a basket, out of sight immediately, and they called out, "Give me back my gallows, give me back my wooden gallows."

20. Would you care to inspect the gallows and look at the prisoners?

21. Excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet.

22. Thus, the first sound to escape Grenouille's lips... sent his mother to the gallows.

23. One enthusiast has constructed a gallows-like contraption in order to perfect his technique.

24. The arrangement was later modified, and gallows were erected outside, in the hanging corner.

25. No Old West gallows like they still use in four states, including Delaware.

26. But I'll own up fairly , I've the shakes upon me for the gallows.

27. Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows.

28. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.

29. However, he settled down again and, with his assistant Brunskill, continued to rule the gallows.

30. After a sumptuous repast he asked the Mayor whether the gallows was prepared.

31. 4 As uplifting as a gallows, maybe, but a rewarding experiment in instrumentation none the less.

32. I ride out with you, and here I am watching them build my own gallows.

33. On Thursday, 13 December 1945, in Hamelin prison , Grese was led to the gallows.

34. Was this a massive bribe to save Will from a charge of infanticide and possibly the gallows?

35. He was framed for a murder he didn't commit and was sentenced to the gallows.

36. 20 One enthusiast has constructed a gallows-like contraption in order to perfect his technique.

37. Hooper's career continued until 1735 but thereafter no mention of him occurs in the gallows records.

38. Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows.

39. If that ruffian does not mend his ways, he will come to the gallows some day.

40. Yet today my ignorance could have caused an innocent man to be sent to the gallows. Sentencedict.com

41. The guilty man was to be drawn on an ox hide to the gallows, where he was hanged.

42. After climbing the thirteen steps leading to the gallows, he was asked if he had a final statement.

43. I arrived in London Town just this morning to rescue one Joshamee Gibbs from one appointment with the gallows.

44. 14 The alchemist would be dressed in a tinsel suit and hanged from a gallows covered in gold-colored foil.

45. Miracles were reported around the late Earl of Lancaster's tomb, and at the gallows used to execute members of the opposition in Bristol.

46. There's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin.

47. Some of the cushions and shoes dangled from cords attached to the ceiling, suggesting the somber finality of a gallows.

48. 16 The alchemist would be dressed in a tinsel suit and hanged from a gallows covered in gold-colored foil.

49. The gallows with its black outline, like a half-completed cross, sank back behind the hedge and was lost to view.

50. The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.