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"Gallows" in a Sentence (16 examples)
The criminal was sent to the gallows.
In truth, a man who renders everyone their due because he fears the gallows, acts under the sway and compulsion of others, and cannot be called just. But a man who does the same from a knowledge of the true reason for laws and their necessity, acts from a firm purpose and of his own accord, and is therefore properly called just.
The gallows were already standing on the square.
You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
Jonathan was sentenced to death and brought to the gallows.
If I choose the gallows instead of the poison, I'll suffer for a shorter amount of time before dying.
Layla stood on the gallows, crying, as a man was slowly tightening the noose around her neck.
It sounds a lot like gallows humour.
They talk about peace next to the gallows.
They're making a gallows just for you, buddy.
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Near-synonym: gibbet
No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?
Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. / You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister.
The last pair of "gallowses" made by Mr. Gratacap was an order from Mr. Brokaw, the clothier.
Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. […] Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth.
They've got a gallows bad reputation, but you know what a place the beach is for talking.
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